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that too many precautions cannot well be taken to 

 avert the introduction of " trouble" in the hatchery. 

 Indeed, were it not for the risks arising from attacks 

 of fungi, pisciculture, as now understood and carried 

 on, would be an unalloyed pleasure and unbounded 

 success. We can practically hatch 995 out of 1,000 

 eggs, or thereabouts. It is the risks of rearing that 

 stand in our road, and these, as time goes on, and 

 experience increases, must diminish. There would 

 appear, then, to be a good time coming for fish cul- 

 ture, and those who earnestly follow it. 



Practice is the only safe guide, as circumstances, 

 geological, physical, and meteorological so vary the 

 conditions of works that no definite rule of procedure 

 will avail. Earnest work and close observation, com- 

 bined with ready resource, are the only safe guides to 

 success. Troubles of some sort are sure to supervene ; 

 the man who succeeds is he who can anticipate, and so 

 remedy them. To be always on the watch and notice 

 the first indication is a very safe maxim, more easy to 

 inculcate than to put in practice. 



There can be no question but that the practical 

 removal of difficulties in the path of fish culture is 

 work of the highest value, well worthy the attention 

 and acknowledgment of those in authority at White- 

 hall and elsewhere at home, as has been the case 

 abroad. 



c. c. c. 



