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to buy the eggs than the adult fish; but then you will 

 have to wait two or three years before you have any 

 breeders. The wisest and safest plan would be to try a 

 few thousand eggs, and also a few hundred two-year old 

 fish. Ten thousand eggs would cost thirty dollars, and 

 two hundred two-year olds would cost about forty dollars. 

 Two hundred two-year olds would probably give about 

 twenty thousand eggs. If you take this advice, you will 

 have eggs to experiment with the first year. With care, 

 you will hatch out more or less, but in any case your ex- 

 perience will be invaluable to you for the next year, and 

 yon will have a stock of breeders, to furnish eggs, as you 

 want them. 



STOCKING STREAMS. Persons who own trout-streams 

 would very often like to have them re-stocked, and some 

 make feeble attempts to do it, by putting in a few thou- 

 sand young fish. This would re stock a small stream, if 

 it were done every year, for some years. But it is folly 

 to suppose that a large stream which has been fished for 

 years, and thousands taken from it every year, can be re- 

 stocked quickly by putting in a few hundred, or even a 

 few thousand young. If you attempt to stock your streams 

 at all, don't do it half-way. Remember that the less fish 

 you put in, the longer you will have to wait. It is much 

 easier to stock a stream than to raise fish in ponds ; 

 because the young fish will take care ot themselves better 

 than any one can take care of them ; and if they are pro- 

 tected from danger, until they are forty-five days old, 

 they are then tolerably able to look out for themselves. 

 In stocking a stream, the young fish should be taken to 

 its head- waters, or put into the springs, or little rivulets, 

 which empty into it. As they grow larger, they will 

 gradually settle down stream, and run up again to the 

 head-waters in winter to spawn. 



