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PRACTICAL TROUT CULTURE. 



but in the latter there was, to say the least, great 



room for improvement.* 



This improvement was made by Mr. Ainsworth 

 by a most simple yet effective ar- 

 rangement. A second screen of fine 

 wire gauze was placed below the 

 one previously used ; both screens 

 were so arranged that they could 

 be readily raised, the spawn collect- 

 ed on the lower one, removed and 

 transported to the hatching-house, 

 where all hitherto concealed ene- 

 mies could be detected and con- 

 tended against ; and thus the happy 



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* Let us here not be regarded as irreverent 

 None more than ourselves admire the works 

 of the Creator and the wonders of his hand ; 

 yet man is placed upon the earth to work. 

 The crude material in small quantity is fur- 

 nished him, and he must improve and increase 

 it The Creator gave the crab-apple, from it 

 man has produced the Newtown Pippin; he 

 causes the corn to grow, but man must manure 

 and cultivate- it; he created upon the mount- 

 ains of Persia a coarse, poisonous shrub, with 

 fruit dangerous to life, yet from this, man, by 

 work and a careful following out of the rules 

 indicated by an observance of other works of 

 the Creator, has derived the luscious peach. 

 Hundreds of similar and well-known instances 

 might be mentioned. Nature, to a certain 

 point, does her work, but it is for man to com- 

 plete it 



