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of some portion of the best trout stream available. 

 As an instance in point, I can refer to the Itchen Trout 

 Breeding Establishment, in Hampshire. 



Some years ago Mr. E. V. Corrie, one of the keenest 

 of fishermen, conceived the idea of placing his breeding 

 pounds directly in the flow of the Itchen River at 

 Lower Chilland, Itchen Abbas. 



With the exception of the hatcheries themselves, in 

 which spring water is used, all the troughs, boxes, 

 pounds, etc, are directly treated to a plentiful supply 

 of river water ; the fry i.e., the young trout imme- 

 diately after passing out of the alevin or yoke-sac 

 period are brought up directly in the life-bearing and 

 cool waters of the Itchen, and the consequence is that, 

 both as yearlings, as two-year-old fish and onwards, 

 the size and healthiness of all the trout are phenomenal. 



In order to illustrate the natural conditions of these 

 remarkable breeding pounds, I have been able, by the 

 kindness and courtesy of the present owner, Mr. G. R. 

 Bryant, of Lower Chilland, to show my readers in 

 Plates XVI., XVII., and XVIII., the succession of 

 these pounds as they occur in the bed of the stream. 



Plate XVI. shows the upper pound in which the 

 stock fish (from 3 to 5 pounds) are kept. The river 

 is here screened off and so controlled by hatches 

 that the entire flow of the River Itchen (here a con- 

 siderable stream) can be poured through the stock 

 pounds. These screens across the course of a rapid 

 river such as the Itchen of course require most careful 

 and constant attention, it being one man's work to 



