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result. We have had 21,000 spawn from Seth Green, of 

 which we think we have hatched and have in good lively 

 condition all except about 2000. These fish we have in 

 boxes, fed by a cool spring, and arranged under Green's per- 

 sonal inspection, and attended by Capt. Simons, an enthu- 

 siastic and very careful person. We have plenty of water 

 to keep these little fellows confined until this fall, when we 

 shall turn them into a pond of ten acres and about twenty 

 feet deep, cool, fed by springs. No outlet except what 

 leeches through the sand into the sea. In very heavy 

 weather the sea sometimes dashes a little salt water into 

 this pond, which lies about four feet above high tide, and 

 this we think a good feature. We have now about 300 fish 

 of a quarter of a pound each in this pond with lots of feed." 



Having occupied so much space with the cultivation of 

 the trout, I shall conclude by giving the following from the 

 Maine Fish Commissioners' report concerning its naturali- 

 zation : 



" Maj. S. Dill, of Phillips, writes to the Maine Farmer : 

 1 In the fall of 1850 I put into the Sandy river ponds ten 

 or twelve trout ; for seven or eight years no indications of 

 them were to be seen, notwithstanding thousands of people 

 crossed those ponds every year. Since 1857 it is judged 

 that not less than 2000 pounds have been taken out 

 annually. So far as I have been able to inform myself, 

 never a fish had been seen in either of those ponds prior 

 to my colonization.' " 



THE LAKE TROUT. Of these we have many species, 

 from the gigantic S. Namaycush to the lesser trout of our 



