SALMON RIVERS 



If the reader is curious as to the geography of the country where 

 the Salmon makes its home in Canadian waters, let him write to Mr. 

 William F. Whitcher,* at Quebec, paying postage, of course, and 

 enclosing a small sum of Canadian currency for the purchase, and 

 procure a chart of the Salmon and Sea Trout Rivers, published by the 



* This gentleman is at the head of the Fisheries Branch of the Crown Land De- 

 partment; an able, zealous, and, as one would think from his salary, as published 

 in the Fisheries Reports, an underpaid oflBcer. All Salmon-fishers owe him a debt 

 of gratitude for his successful efforts in protecting Salmon ; but for which, the rivers 

 which yet remain to Canada would soon become as barren as our own. Ilis know- 

 ledge as an observer and writer has been extensively used by periodicals and in 

 books, without his receiving the credit due to him. One instance of the kind is his 

 discovery that Salmon in Canada frequently express their spawn and milt simulta- 

 neously, by bodily contact, the male and female lying partially on their sides. That 

 Salmon in generating ever resort to this mode, has never been mentioned by experi- 

 menters or observers in Scotland or Ireland. 



(607) 



