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CHAPTER II 



REARING 

 WATER AND HATCHING-HOUSE 



A SUITABLE water supply may be described as the 

 first requisite of trout culture. Nothing can be done 

 without this. On it everything depends. To secure 

 a flow of suitable water must, therefore, be your first 

 concern. Water taken from a brook or river is the 

 best for rearing the fish, but for hatching the eggs 

 use spring water if possible. A spot which yields both 

 spring water and brook water gives you a great 

 advantage. It need hardly be said that the water 

 must, in either case, be free from all suspicion of 

 pollution. Iron, lime, or sulphur, if present in great 

 excess, unfits the water for trout breeding in any 

 stage, but occasional muddiness is not a disadvantage 

 in brook water for rearing the fish after the hatching 

 period has passed. 



Having found water suitable in quantity and 

 purity, there still remains the vital question of supply. 



