TROUT-BREEDING 101 



probably the best dish for breakfast obtainable in 

 England, as good as the monster prawns caught in the 

 harbour of Rio Janeiro. Yet, on how many tables 

 does it appear ? Even at City dinners, where truite au 

 bleu is often a part of the menu, the trout is more often 

 than not a sea-trout, which lacks the distinctive flavour 

 of the good brown-trout of the inland waters. In 

 showing how the supply of brown- trout for stocking 

 newly-made pools or existing but neglected streams 

 could be raised beyond the limits of any possible 

 demand by the artificial cultivation of the eggs in 

 properly made hatching-places, Buckland completed the 

 practical work of his life. His small hatching-pools, 

 down which the water trickles from shelf to shelf, are 

 still in use at South Kensington, and the young 

 American brook-trout, hatched last year and the year 

 before, are swimming in the tanks provided for them. 



The Buckland Museum marks the point at which 

 the industry of fish-farming had arrived fifteen years 

 ago, one hardly beyond the stage of suggestion. The 

 degree in which its teaching has fulfilled the purpose of 

 its founder is perhaps best shown by the account of the 

 great trout-breeding establishment of the late Mr. 

 Andrews at Crichmere and Guildford, contributed to 

 the Field of January 19 by the well-known writer who 

 takes the pseudonym of " Red Spinner." Mr. Andrews, 

 like Frank Buckland, owed his death in some measure 

 to a chill caught while superintending the work of 

 spawning fish in winter. By education and profession 

 he was a musician, and retained to the last the post of 



