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owner and fish-culturist benefit, although when 

 the cost of men's lunches, and nets, railway fares, 

 and blank days are totaled up, the eggs seldom 

 cost much under twenty shillings per thousand. 

 The production of Ova, properly speaking, requires 

 as much skill as the creation of a herd of pedigree 

 cattle. Some good work may result in favoured 

 waters from spawn promiscuously obtained ; but 

 the best results can only be ensured by the most 

 careful adjustment between the class of spawners 

 from which the Ova is obtained, and the nature of 

 the stream, pond, or lake the produce of the eggs 

 are intended to stock. To place the fry from eggs 

 counting 25,000 to the gallon into high mountain 

 tarns or rocky rivers is to court failure there is 

 not food enough in such places all the year round, 

 to sustain such fast growing trout. Nor will 

 much better results follow the planting of the 

 produce of wild fish spawned promiscuously as 

 they come to net in sheltered lakes or deep slowly 

 flowing streams, where food is abundant, and fat 

 trout or coarse fish numerous. The slow growing- 

 produce of small wild fish are, from their less size, 

 subject to the cannibalistic attentions of the 

 existing older stock for many months longer than 

 the quick growing produce of wild breeders which 

 have been carefully selected, or the produce of 

 pedigree trout, whose age and parentage are 

 known with scientific accuracy. 



