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bow spawns long after the S. fario. It there- 

 fore will give the fly-fishermen good sport after 

 the season for the common trout is over. It is a 

 very free feeder, and grows more rapidly than 

 our trout ; great care must therefore be taken to 

 give it plenty of food. I would draw my readers' 

 attention particularly to this fact as to the feed- 

 ing and quick-growing qualities of the rainbow, 

 for they make it, if possible, even more necessary 

 that the water into which they are turned should 

 contain a good supply of food than it was in the 

 case of the common trout ; though even in the case 

 of the common trout, this is quite the most import- 

 ant consideration in stocking a water with fish. 



Another advantage possessed by the rainbow 

 is, that it is less liable to the attacks of fungus 

 than any other of the Salmonidce. Though, of 

 course, this is not such an important consideration 

 nowadays as it would have been even a few years 

 ago, still it is one which deserves some considera- 

 tion, particularly from the amateur. This freedom 

 from fungus is very marked in the rainbow, for 

 I know of a case where some dace suffering from 

 fungus were put into a rearing pond containing 

 a few rainbows. Though the dace died of the 

 disease, the rainbows remained healthy and free 



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