On Stocking. 51 



the water far more than a much larger number of 

 fish would do. 



APPROPRIATE EMPLOYMENT OF Two- YEAR- OLDS 

 AS A MODE OF STOCKING. Two-year-olds are not 

 advisable for stocking the upper portions of rivers ; 

 they will seek deeper water, 110 matter of what 

 breed they may be. Wherever coarse fish, such as 

 perch and dace thrive, two-year-olds may be used 

 with safety, but not above the limit of dace water. 



For all ponds two-year-olds are better than 

 yearlings, inasmuch as, if the feeding is at all 

 plentiful, they will be fit for the rod by the end of 

 the same season in which they were transplanted. 



In lakes and larger pieces of water a sufficient 

 stocking of two-year-olds is often too costly, and 

 yearlings are used instead ; but our experience is 

 that the public is beginning to discover that for 

 ponds, lakes, and reservoirs, two-year-olds, from 

 the speedy sport they afford, are more advan- 

 tageous than any other mode of stocking, and 

 consequently at Howietoun no effort has been 

 spared to provide for their accommodation. 



COST OF TWO-YEAR-OLDS. The production of 

 two-year-olds on a large scale is of too recent 

 development to admit of any accurate estimate 

 of their cost on the same lines as given for Ova, 

 fry, and yearlings. Taking yearlings at 10 per 



