FOR PLEASURE AND PROFIT. 



early stages, and feeding the very young fry, which go to " fill 

 the bill " of objection to the carrying out of such advice a I 

 tender in the following pages, are not necessarily included in 

 the formation of and profitable cultivation of sporting waters^ 

 although they are such a fascinating study that the operator 

 will inevitably include them in his programme later on. Such 

 operations, however, may be left in the hands of the expert at 

 present, aind the owner of any water may pick up the thread 

 of cultivation where the expert's assistance is required in a 

 lesser degree. 



Granted, however, that practical knowledge is as valuable 

 in the cultivation of waiter as it is in the farming cf land, 

 surely when such a rich harvest awaits tho'se who choose to 

 farm the waters sufficient practical knowledge cf fish-culture 

 becomes as necessary to complete the education of those wht 

 farm or own estates as the knowledge of how to grow hops, 

 wheat, and turnips, and how to raise fat stock and poultry. 

 For this reason, in their proper place I have given instructions 

 in these more delicate prtocesse. 



Personally, I am inclined to think that to gather the rich 

 harvest our waters offer means only or, at any rate, in a 

 very large measure application. Further, I am convinced 

 that, even if a whole generation of close application be necesi- 

 sary to the practical requirements associated with the success- 

 ful stocking of our waters with Salmonidse, and the making 

 and stocking of others, it would be time well spent, for the lie- 

 ward would, indeed, be most handsome. But there is no rea- 

 son, to my mind, why those who sow should not reap also in 

 the near future. In the following pages I have laid down 

 the methods by which sporting waters may be formed and the 

 most modern principles of pisciculture may be simply and suc- 

 cessfully applied t'o their practical cultivation. The advice 

 given, whether it refers to the construction of apparatus, the 

 formation and management of fish-ponds, the rearing of fish, 

 or any other of the numerous matters dealt with, may be abso- 

 lutely r*elied upon a& being the outcome of the joint experi- 

 ences of the leading pisciculturists throughout the world, 



