CHAPTER V 



TROUT. REARING PONDS, BOXES, 

 AND HATCHING TRAYS 



HAVING decided upon a suitable spot, the 

 amateur must now proceed to make his 

 ponds. Whether he derive his water supply 

 from a spring or from a stream, the amateur 

 had better bring it into his ponds through a 

 pipe. A three-inch pipe will be large enough for 

 a pond thirty feet long, three feet wide, and two 

 feet deep at the deepest part. It is a good thing 

 for the water to fall, some inches at any rate, 

 through the air before it reaches the pond, and 

 in a series of ponds with only one supply, the 

 water should flow through an open trough with 

 stones and other impediments in it, between the 

 ponds. The ponds may be lined entirely with 

 brickwork faced with cement, and in this case 

 the sides should be made perpendicular. The 

 cement should, however, be exposed freely to the 



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