PAMPHLET 



ON 



STOCKING 



FOURTH EDITION 



HOWIETOUN, January 31 st, 1892. 



THE last edition of the pamphlet on Stocking 

 has been out of print for some months, while this 

 issue has been delayed through the pressure of 

 other work, and the necessity of practically re- 

 writing the pamphlet to bring it up to date. 



The first edition had to beg the whole question 

 of modern fish-culture, the fourth edition finds 

 artificial Stocking very generally adopted, and 

 trout farms established in many places in England 

 and Scotland as purely commercial ventures, 

 thriving both fishcultu rally and financially. 



The public, at least the angling portion thereof, 

 is already very much up to date on the subject, 

 the size and colour of eggs, the length and shape 

 of yearlings or two-year-olds, are questions on 

 which it holds a very decided opinion, nor is 

 it any longer necessary to point out, as in the 



