io6 How to obtain it. 



destination, it is always safe, although it may not be always 

 necessary, to fill up the cans containing the fish with water from 

 the river or lake they are to inhabit. Then pour off about a third 

 of it, and fill up again, and if the difference be known to be great, 

 repeat the process a second and even a third time. The fish may 

 then be safely turned out. 



Yearlings are a very good size or age with which to stock 

 water, and over ninety-eight per cent, of the consignments from 

 the Solway Fishery reach their destinations in safety, although 

 sent quite alone, and to all sorts of places, from Land's End to 

 John O'Groats. In Autumn and winter they travel perfectly. In 

 spring, as the days get warmer, there is risk, and during April and 

 the early part of May, when yearlings are sometimes travelled, 

 very much depends upon the state of the weather and atmospheric 

 conditions. The influence of the sun on the water is often 

 considerable, and after a week of warm days and nights at this 

 time of year the fish will be feeding freely and growing also. 

 They have to be tanked and starved, and the temperature of the 

 wateTTowerecT some fifteen degrees by means of ice. This ordeal 

 is trying to them, and when at last they are sent on their journey, 

 perhaps amidst thunder and lightning, they must run some risk. 

 In this favoured country we have cold nights in April and May, 

 and during such, yearlings will bear transit until late in the season ; 

 but once let the weather become thundery and the danger is 

 largely increased, as also is the cost of transit. 



There is no real difficuly now-a-days in the mere work of 

 conveying fish, even in the month of July, if placed in charge of 

 experts. It is simply a matter of cost, and the expenses at that 

 time of year would, I need hardly say, be considerable. Two- 

 year-olds, if the way be tedious or complicated, are not absolutely 

 safe without an attendant, for part of the journey at least. Should 

 they become sickly en route> a little attention soon restores them, 

 whereas if left unattended many of them under such circumstances 

 would succumb. Yearlings are found in practice to give excellent 

 results, although I have many cases in which fry have turned out 

 equally well. I say equally well ; perhaps I ought to have said 

 better, for although the loss by death has been numerically greater, 

 yet, comparing costs with results, they have compared favourably 



