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apertures, and then we would net them out and put 

 them in the ponds above, for down stream were their 

 yearling brothers, who would take them in out of the 

 wet with pleasure. 



In July they need assorting in order to keep the larg- 

 est together, so that the smallest will have a chance to 

 get their share of food, and the sorting should be done 

 every six or eight weeks. 



In September they are down into the yearling ponds 

 and the yearlings let into the upper breeding pond, for 

 we may get a few small eggs from some, which in No- 

 vember are twenty months old, counting from March 

 of the year before. 



CHAPTER VII. 



STREAMS. 



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As a rule a stream has to be taken as we find it, but 

 often it can be improved for trout breeding or for fish- 

 ing. If possible, make it more crooked, with deep 

 pools, fallen logs for hiding places and shade, culti- 

 vate alders or willows along the banks for shade and in- 

 sect harbors, and, in fact, make as wild a stream of it, 

 and one as difficult to fish, as it is possible, and you 

 have done all that can be done to better it. Shade is 

 loved by trout and it also keeps the waters cool. 



If you contemplate draining a swamp where cool 

 springs trickle all over, and think of making a trout 

 stream of the collected waters, the farther you can get 

 from a straight line the better. Nature always works 



