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success of this enterprize, and while visiting 

 Cleveland a short time since, we called on Drs. 

 Ackley and Garlick who very kindly conveyed us 

 to the farm and fish nursery, situated about three 

 miles from the city. The farm contains 100 

 acres, through the timbered portion of it, runs 

 a ravine abundantly supplied with never failing 

 springs of water. Across this ravine, dams have 

 been built so as to form three ponds, connected 

 by sluce-ways between them. In the upper pond 

 the young trout are confined by netting across 

 the sluice. The second pond designed for the 

 fish two years old, and the lower one for the 

 fish after they become so large as to be able to 

 protect themselves from the voracious appetite of 

 the older fish of their race. 



At the head of a large spring and near the 

 upper pond is situated the hatching house. In 

 this house is a tank four feet wide by eight feet 

 long, two feet deep. The water is received from 

 the spring into this tank, and is discharged from 

 a pipe near the top into the hatching boxes, 

 ten in number, and so arranged that the first is 

 higher in the series than the last, so that there 

 is a constant stream of water passing from the 

 tank above through the ten hatching boxes. In 

 this tank we saw the old pet fish "Naiad Queen" 

 the prolific mother of thousands. Her mate "Tri- 

 ton? like those of his sex sometimes in other 

 departments of animated nature, had become 

 somewhat unruly, and had been assigned his abode, 

 for the time being, in one of the ponds with the 



