CHAPTER VIII. 



SEASON 1873-74. 

 CONSTRUCTION MIDDLETHIRD. 



SOME words of Frank Buckland's induced me first to try to 

 hatch out trout eggs. I got a copy of Francis Francis' Fish- 

 Culture, and had a box made something similar to the one he 

 describes on page 53 (second edition). This box I shall hereafter 

 refer to as the 



FRANCIS BOX. 



It is built of elm, and is in good preservation to-day, although 

 it has been more than twelve years in use. The dimensions of the 

 box are shown in the cuts (Figs. 30, 31, and 32). The trough at 



5 ' 8" 

 Flo. 30 scale / 5 . 



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the upper end receives the water from the stream, and a screen of 

 perforated zinc (not shown in the woodcut) fixed across the opening 

 into the box confines the fish, or defends the eggs, for the box 

 can be used both as a stew and as a hatching-box, as the case 



