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advantage from this intensive propagation of the young." "Feed- 

 ing fishes on the young of their own kind is not good husbandry." 

 "Raising animals and their forage together is not good husbandry. " 

 These sentences are quoted out of their order and connection, but 

 they furnish food for thought and material for discussion, because 

 the line of argument is that fishculture must follow the lines of 

 animal culture. But is there not a wide difference? It is not an 

 economical use of land to make a pasture of it. Animals will 

 trample down and destroy far more than they will eat. But fish 

 do not do this. Then the assertion that it is not good husbandry 

 to feed fishes on the young of their own kind sounds convincing, 

 but is there not room for some modification of this statement in 

 view of the fact that it is the rule for fishes to feed on their own 

 young, and that the enormous fecundity of fishes is nature's 

 admission of the fact? Or, shall we not still insist that it is, 

 nevertheless, bad husbandry and that nature cannot help it and 

 that therefore we should assist her in every way possible to increase 

 production? 



