20 PRACTICAL TROUT CULTURE. 



"benefit of mankind, not for my own profit. 

 Should this race prove to be the best method of 

 impregnating and saving the spawn to produce 

 healthy trout, without mortality soon after they 

 commence to feed, it will be the great object 

 sought for, and make trout-breeding certain. 

 But time and experience will test this. 

 Respectfully, yours, 



STEPHEN H. AINSWORTH. 



Among the frequent visitors to Mr. Ainsworth' s 

 fish farm was Seth Green, whose name is now 

 known and honored by every angler and epicure 

 throughout our land. For years he had been 

 studying the problem of fish culture, and had, 

 like Remy, spent days and nights in observing 

 the habits of fishes. In 1864 the well-known 

 Mumford establishment was originated by Mr. 

 Green, and hundreds of thousands of impreg- 

 nated spawn annually shipped to all parts of the 

 United States. The great problem was solved, 

 and for the first time in America fish culture was 

 made a pecuniary success. Trout were hatched 

 by thousands, but as a representative American, 

 Seth was not satisfied : the production of millions 

 alone would content him. Our shad were rapidly 

 diminishing in numbers and decreasing in size ; 

 his desire was to restore them to our depleted 



