76 Trout Culture. 



wire, is of such a size as just to work easily 

 inside the troughs, and is fixed into a short 

 wooden handle ; it is covered with muslin, and 

 used with the right hand, a bowl or other vessel 

 being held in the left so as to be ready to receive 

 the fry when caught. At first the unsuspecting 

 little creatures will be very easily swept up, but 

 gradually the last few become very cunning by 

 experience, and dodge the net with wonderful 

 speed and dexterity. It is sometimes a good 

 plan to use a syphon of indiarubber tubing and 

 draw off the water into one of the lower tanks. 

 Almost every one of the fry will make for the 

 exit as the water sinks, and the few remaining 

 may easily be got out by tilting the trough and 

 sweeping them up in the net as the water flows 

 back when the trough is again lowered. 



Having caught the fry they must be taken in 

 pails, or other vessels, to their new residence, 

 and there set free, by gently turning the pail 

 over when in the water. They will swim away, 



