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INDEX 



Mating of black bass, 27, 30, 



34; of trout, 126. 

 Meat, prepared as food, 164, 



167 



Fertilisation of eggs, artifi- Lightning killing fish, 102 



cial, 131 Liver-paste, how prepared, 



Finger lings, care of, 160, 163; 164 



defined, 160 

 Floating-box, construction of, Kettle of pond, 10 



194 

 Floor of ponds, treatment of, 



6, 11, 100 



Frogs, culture of, 215-233 

 Fry, care of, 38, 46, 56, 84, 



147, 165, 197; emergence Milk, prepared as food, 164 



of, 146; habits of, 12, 39, Milt and spermatozoa, 131, 



134 



Minnows as food, 22 

 Muscallonge, American species 

 Grass, or calico, bass (see o f, 203; culture of, 203 



(Bass) 

 Goldfish, 244, 252-282; rear- Nests of black bass, 24, 32, 35 ; 



ing for profit, 262, 267; of bullhead, 63; of sun-fish, 



varieties of, 255 53 



Nest-boxes for black bass, 43 

 Handling ripe trout, 128 

 Hatchery for trout, equip- Outlets of ponds, 13 



ment of, 105, 111 

 Hatching-boxes, how made, 



121 

 Hospital tank, 275 



55, 64, 151 

 Fungus, 143, 153, 277 



Insects injurious to fish, 17, 



231 

 Introduction of stock to 



ponds, 17, 29 



Jars, hatching fish in, 178, 

 214 



Large-mouthed bass, 47 



Perch, white, culture of, 208 

 Perch, yellow, culture of, 188 

 Pickerel, chain, culture of, 200 

 Pike, characteristics of, 202 

 Plants for an aquarium, 246; 



for fish-ponds, 14, 46, 226 

 Ponds for black bass, 9, 47; 

 for carp, 72, 75; for cat- 

 fish, 61, 66; for frogs, 224; 

 for goldfish, 268; for trout, 

 93 



Raceways, advantage of, 104, 

 127 



