TROUT CULTURE. 



CHAPTER I. 



PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS. 



THE three qualities, most needed, in order to 

 become a successful trout-rearer, are Patience, 

 Endurance, and Ingenuity. Without these no 

 enterprise can well succeed, and pisciculture 

 is assuredly no exception. In fish breeding 

 patience is required, because its duties are what 

 some might call monotonous : the round of 

 work is regular, and must be carried on much 

 the same, day after day, month after month, 

 with, it may be, very slight variation ; but still, 

 the work soon grows into a habit, and, when 

 once a system has been formed, the tiresome- 

 ness of daily duties is much lessened ; and 



