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pond. They are fed on boiled and grated liver. After the first year 

 they are turned into another pond in order that the first pond may 

 be occupied by the new crop of fry. A third pond is used to receive 

 the half of tlie brood becoming smelts the second year. Three hun- 

 dred and fifty thousand eggs are hatched at this establishment annu- 

 ally ; and as a female salmon will yield, about 1,000 eggs for every 

 pound she weighs, you will readily see tliat a small number are 

 required to supply the boxes, say twenty-two of fifteen pounds each. 

 It is stated that ninety per cent are hatched. Now let us examine 

 the practical results : The catch of salmon, and hence the rental of 

 the stream, regularly increased. In 1853 the rental was £8,700, 

 $43,500 ; 1854, £9,200 ; 3 855, £9,900 ; 1858, £11,400 ; 1860, £13,000 ; 

 1862, £14,000 ; 1864, £15,000, $75,000. The river Tay is not much, 

 if any, larger than the Passaic in New Jersey, or the Thames in 

 Connecticut. The operations at Stormontfield attracted the atten- 

 tion of others interested, and the same plan was pursued by Ash worth 

 in Ireland, on the Galway ; Cooper on the Owenmore and Arrow 

 and Ballysadare ; Martin and Gillon on the Dee, and many other 

 rivers in England, Scotland and Ireland have been densely repopu- 

 lated with salmon. 



The following extract from an account published in the London 

 Field, of the success of artificial hatching, and the return of the 

 salmon by the way of the salmon ladders erected by Mr. Cooper over 

 the previously impassable falls of the Ballysadare, will be heard with 

 the deepest interest, especially by those who have not, like our 

 enthusiastic veteran angler friend, Thad. Norris, Esq., visited the 

 far-off salmon rivers of Canada and Labrador, or been permitted to 

 witness the remarkable catch of Charles G. Atkins, Esq., last sum- 

 mer, at the mouth of the Penobscot, sixteen salmon, in six weeks, 

 taken un-a-wares (in a weirs) with a fly-net : August 24, saw several 

 salmon in the hole under the fall of Collooney. September 24, the 

 river between Ballysadare and Collooney is now well stocked, salmon 

 being visible in almost every deep hole, and a number being congre- 

 grated between Collooney bridge and the hole under the fall. Octo- 

 ber 3, seven salmon and one white trout in the pond. October 13 

 counted twenty-seven salmon, mostly females, in the Collooney lad- 

 der. October 28, three male fish in the ladder ; 30th, four male and 

 two female fish in the ladder. November 3, sixteen male and eight 

 female; 4th, ten fish in the ladder; 5th, nine fish ; 6th, seven ditto ; 

 7th, eleven ditto, and saw several large fish leaping at the ladder at 



