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but to devote our means to multiplying those larger, more 

 prolific and more easily raised fishes which find their food in 

 the ocean, and waters more abundantly supplied with insects, 

 and Crustacea, that we might accomplish the greatest possible 

 results. We have received constant applications from all 

 parts of the State for trout for streams and ponds fed by cold 

 springs, so Ave have made preliminary arrangements should 

 the necessary means be placed at our disposal, to distribute 

 from fifty to seventy thousand trout immediately. Our hatch- 

 ing facilities are such that we can at little or no additional cost, 

 turn out hundreds of thousand iry yearly, should we be en- 

 abled to procure storage ponds for the breeding trout. 



The cultivation of the lands which are drained by trout 

 streams^ has in our opinion tended greatly to destroy the 

 trout, almost as much as excessive and indiscriminate fishing. 

 The eggs of the trout are of considerable specific gravity, and 

 are deposited on the gravelly beds in the brooks during the 

 latter part of October, and in the month of November, They 

 are hatched in this latitude in from forty to sixty days, dur- 

 ing which time they are constantly exposed to the danger of 

 being covered up and smothered with mud washed down from 

 the newly ploughed surrounding fields,, nor does tke danger 

 from the washing of the fields end with this period of develop- 

 ment of the egg, for after the young fish has freed itself from 

 the egg, it is almost as helpless during the absorption of the 

 umbilical sack. We have in wading trout streams in How- 

 ard county, sunk ankle deep in mud washed in from the sur- 

 rounding ploughed fields. 



The washings are more fatal to the eggs of the Salamonidfb 

 than perhaps any other, as they, after depositing their eggs- 

 leave them, whereas the black bass attend their nests, keep- 

 ing them clear of sediment by a gentle movement of the fins, 

 until the ofi'spring are free from the egg, and able to take 

 care of themselves. The length of time required for the de- 

 velopment of the eggs, renders it quite improbable that the 

 streams in highly cultivated farms will ever become abundant 

 with trout even if all fishing was stopped, unless the eggs 

 are artificially hatched. 



We are of opinion that the only effective method of 

 keeping up trout streams, is to hatch out yearly and keep 



