ARTIFICIAL BREEDING OF SALMON. 195 
fish placed itself alongside of the female in such a 
position that its head reached to about the middle of 
the body of the latter. He further noticed, that whilst 
the process of discharging the ova was going on, the 
female turned somewhat on her side with a quivering 
sort of motion, and that the male emitted his milt 
simultaneously. It therefore occurred to him that by 
pressing the spawn out of the female, and the milt 
from the male at the same time, in water, he would 
obtain a quantity of fructified eggs, which, by beg 
placed in convenient places in brooks, would in due 
time bring forth fish. No sooner conceived than exe- 
cuted. He threw out his nets and caught a male and 
a female fish ready to spawn. His wife took the one 
‘and he the other, and they squeezed their contents 
out into a bowl of clean water. He then took the eggs 
and placed them in a sheltered place in a stream where 
there were previously no trout. The following summer 
he was rejoiced to see that it swarmed with fish. Con- 
vinced, therefore, of the success of his plan, he con- 
structed for himself a breeding-box close to his house ; 
and notwithstanding the jeers and scofts of his neigh- 
bours, who thought it impious, to say the least, in 
interfermg and meddling with things which belonged 
to Nature alone, continued to breed fish every autumn. 
Such was the first attempt at hatching ova in Norway ! 
J will now proceed to give a brief account of the 
