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employed in pisciculture, and a brief notice of the 

 benefits which are likely to accrue to a nation which 

 rightly practises the art. 



In this country, where so much is left to individual 

 enterprise, and so little is intrusted to centralisation, it 

 is scarcely to be expected that the Government will 

 take up the question. Therefore, although the subject 

 is really one of national importance, it must rest on its 

 own money-producing merits, like any other kind of 

 merchandise ; and all that can be at present done by 

 the press is to show the ease with which a fish-hatching 

 apparatus can be established, the very little capital 

 which is sunk in its erection and management, and the 

 very large return which is made in proportion to the 

 sums invested therein. 



