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CHAPTER IX. 



CONCLUSION. 



THIS little work has been written with the 

 express object of so guiding the owner of 

 water in the management of his fishery, that, 

 by following out the broad principles laid down, 

 disease may be averted, and success ensured. 

 If personal acquaintance with all the practical 

 details of breeding and rearing trout can give 

 an authority to speak on such subjects, the 

 writer may well claim that authority, as he 

 has for some years carried on, with his own 

 hands and under his own charge, a small fishery, 

 the success of which has fairly astonished him. 

 When first setting out he was so much ham- 

 pered by doubts and fears, and perplexed about 

 many things, that he hardly knew what course 



