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itself. The box may be arranged to stand on legs, or may be 

 supported by two ropes passed underneath it and fastened to pegs 

 stuck in the ground on each side of the pond. It should be 

 placed at such a level that a sufficient current may be directed 

 through it. Where there is a fall averaging some twelve inches 

 between each pond, as at the Solway Fishery, the matter is ex- 

 ceedingly simple. Where the fall is necessarily very slight, owing 

 to surrounding levels, etc., it is best to have an independent supply 

 of water, conveyed in a temporary spout or by means of a hose- 

 pipe. 



The boxes being placed in position, and the water turned on 

 to them, the fry may be put into them. After their transition from 

 the hatchery they are naturally frightened, but instead of being 

 scattered in a pond that is strange to them, they find themselves 

 again in a hatching box, and none the worse for their journey. 

 The fact of their being altogether is also reassuring to them. They 

 cannot run away, and the little excitement they have had has, 

 apart from their fright, given them an appetite. In half an hour 

 some of them have begun to make themselves at home, and a 

 little food may be given to them. It should only be introduced 

 at the head of the box, and the few fish that are ready for it will 

 encourage others, who see them feed and are themselves hungry. 

 They will gradually come up from the bottom of the hatching 

 box, and in a short time all will be feeding and apparently quite 

 at home again. It must be a delightful discovery to find that 

 after being syphoned out of their original home, jolted in a tub or 

 a can, and then poured out of it, that they are not killed or hurt, 

 and that after all they are only in another box which looks very 

 much like the former one, a place where supplies of food are 

 again given to them. Some of them feel hungry, and take it, 

 and find it the same agreeable mixture that they have been 

 accustomed to. Others that are looking on begin to think they 

 would like some too, and the rest follow their example, and soon 

 all are enjoying an ample meal. With regard to the past their 

 fears vanish, and they begin to think they have had a dream. 



| They should be treated while in this box exactly as they have 



: been dealt with in the hatchery. 



The next day they will be happy again, and feeding 



