202 FISH HATCHING. 



" The question that now remains to be 

 considered is, f Has the artificial propagation, 

 even on the small scale that has been carried 

 on at Stormontfield, been of advantage to the 

 fishery proprietors on the Taj. We have no 

 doubt on the matter, for, on referring to a 

 statement of the rental of the Taj published 

 bj the proprietors themselves, we find that 

 in the jear 1828, the jear of the passing 

 of Home Drummond's Act, the rental was 

 fourteen thousand five hundred and seventy- 

 four pounds. It graduallj fell off everj jear 

 afterwards till 1852, when it reached the 

 minimum, amounting to seven thousand nine 

 hundred and seventy -three pounds, five shillings. 

 In 1853 the artificial rearing commenced; 

 and in 1858, when the statement was printed, 

 the rental was eleven thousand four hundred 



