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THE TROUT 



Livingston Stone mentions no less than twenty- 

 three different troubles, and I will give you his grim 

 catalogue, which, long as it is, does not profess to 

 include all the ills that trout-flesh is heir to. 



1. Fungus on the egg. 



2. Partial suffocation. 



3. Strangulation of the 



embryo in hatch- 

 ing. 



4. Seth Green's dropsy, 



or blue swelling. 



5. Deformity at birth. 



6. Fungus on the surface 



of the body. 



7. Constitutional weak- 



ness. 



8. Emaciation. 



9. Starvation. 



10. Ulcers on the head. 

 n. Animal parasites. 



12. Fin disease. 



13. Black ophthalmia. 



14. Irritation of the optic 



nerve. 



15. Inflammation of the 



gills. 



1 6. Black gill fever. 



17. Fatty degeneration of 



the vitals. 



1 8. Spotted rash. 



1 9. Strangulation by food. 



20. Cannibalism, 



bling. 



21. Overheating. 



22. Suffocation. 



23. Paralysis. 



nib- 



All these are very undesirable acquaintances, and 

 I am happy to say that, hitherto, very few of them 

 have obtruded on me their unwelcome presence at 

 the Weston Fishery. 



Stone says, i I suppose there never was in the 

 world such a thing as a fish doctor ; ' and the curative 

 treatment of trout disease certainly shows now as 



