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feeding race. That this is really the case I can well conceive, 

 from the experience I have had with trout in many ways. There 

 is a remedy for it, however. I am quite convinced of this, 

 although the application requires a little working out yet. We 

 know quite sufficient to be assured of the fact, and have already 

 learned a good deal regarding the training of fish. A vast deal 

 more may be looked for from the fish culture of the future than 

 from that of the past. Many difficulties that existed a few years 

 ago have been overcome, and barriers to progress that at one time 

 appeared insurmountable have, by patient endurance and repeated 

 and untiring effort, been driven to the vanishing point. 



Fish culture has been sneered at by some who failed in their 

 first attempts, and cases have occurred where, through ignorance 

 or careless working, the great results looked for and perhaps 

 promised by the enthusiast, have not been realised, but this is only 

 what might have been expected. I have repeatedly seen cases in 

 which individuals who have perhaps read some fish-cultural work, 

 or found an interesting paper on the subject in one of our 

 magazines, have at once come to the conclusion that fish could 

 be produced by the million by the expenditure of a trifling 

 amount. It is needless to say that the work of such enthusiasts, 

 entered into very often even without a single consultation with an 

 expert, often results in failure and brings discredit upon a good 

 cause. It is a well-known truism that where one man can 

 live well another will starve, and this certainly applies to fish 

 culture. 



The idea that the making of a pond and the turning in of a 

 lot of fish is all that is necessary must be exploded, and the work 

 begun on right lines and under careful supervision. It will then 

 be likely to produce results that will be gratifying to the promoter, 

 and which will inspire confidence in the looker-on. To work out 

 all the ramifications of the subject must be left to a few only, who 

 are willing to make it their life work, but on the results of their 

 labour may be built up a mass of information which will enable 

 good work to be done where formerly it was unthought of. With 

 a view to the improvement and promotion of the work, the Solway 

 Fishery has been thrown open as a school of fish culture, and 

 already this step is bearing good fruit. How gladly some of us a 



