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not vitally essential. While, therefore, a salmon or 

 trout, with pale flesh or white flesh, is by no means in- 

 ferior, yet popular taste gives the bright orange-colored 

 meat the preference. Hence the necessity of breeding 

 from red-meated fish, and rejecting those which are not 

 red-meated. The former produce the red- or orange- 

 colored eggs from which the desirable red-meated sal- 

 mon, or trout, can alone be hatched. 



