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cent banks. Across this ravine was thrown a dam, raising 

 a deep pond covering over half an acre of ground. The 

 next thing was to j)rocure the i)arent fishes. An exj^edi- 

 tion was started to Port Stanly, in Canada, and another 

 to Sault Ste. Marie, in Michigan, both of which were 

 successful, procuring in all some iifty trout of good breed- 

 ing size. These were i)laced in the pond in June, 1854. 

 A breeding-place was leveled off at the head of the pond, 

 covered with gravel. I spent the season in Cleveland, and 

 visited the pond daily with Dr. Garlick, and found the 

 lish doing well. About the lirst of ISTovember, on visiting 

 the pond, we discovered two small trout making a spawning- 

 bed, and in the course of ten days the bed was covered 

 with lish. The next thing was to prex)are hatching facil- 

 ities. A small cabin was erected over one of the largest 

 springs, about ten feet square. Six boxes were procured 

 about one foot square. There was over a dozen feet fall 

 from the spring. These boxes were terraced from the 

 spring down, with a spill from one box to the other, 

 guarded by a screen tilled about two-thirds full of fine 

 gravel, and the hatchery was complete. 



I shall never forget the expression of the countenance as 

 he lifted the lirst pair of gravid lish from the pool. 

 The usual o^jeration of stripping the lish and fecundating 

 the eggs was performed, and the eggs gently spread over 

 the gravel in box number one, and the water was let on. 

 In the same way the boxes were all filled and the work was 

 done. A padlock was placed on the door, and the Doctor 

 was happy. We visited the hatchery often to remove un- 

 fecundated eggs, of which very few were found. On visit- 

 ing the hatchery, about the latter part of January, the eyes 

 appeared in the eggs, and about the first of March, 1854, 

 on visiting the works, there lay prone on his side on his 

 gravelly bed the first baby fish artificially propagated on this 

 continent. Then followed the hatching till the boxes were 

 alive with the young trout. Dr. Garlick soon after wrote 



