22 PRACTICAL TROUT CULTURE. 



CHAPTER II. 



CHOOSING A LOCATION. 



THAT the choice of a location for a fish farm is 

 a matter of vital importance to the pisciculturist, 

 is self-evident. The statement that any farmer 

 who has a spring upon his place can at once enter 

 upon the business at little cost of time and money 

 is, as experiment has too often proved, scarcely 

 correct. We have examined hundreds of streams 

 and springs in various parts of our own and ad- 

 jacent States, and though a few have "been found 

 to combine all the necessary requirements, many, 

 from causes hereafter to be mentioned, were totally 

 unfitted for the purpose. The requisites for a per- 

 fect trout farm are : 







1. An ample and constant supply of pure, cold 

 water. 



2. Sufficient fall for the construction of ponds 

 and race-ways. 



3. Protection from surface water. 



4. Proper material for the construction of banks. 

 That an ample and constant supply of pure, 



