STORMONTFIELD EXPERIMENT. 2-5 



in artificially filling a small pond with young 

 salmon. The plan adopted by him was a very 

 simple one. He, with great care, lifted the salmon 

 from the river into a tub of water, and extracted 

 their spawn, which was deposited in boxes filled 

 with water and gravel; they were placed in a 

 running stream, and by this means had produced 

 the young salmon. His brother, Mr Edmund 

 Ashworth, and himself having purchased "the 

 Gal way salmon fishery " in Ireland, they deter- 

 mined to try an experiment there for the artificial 

 propagation of salmon, under the superintendence 

 of Mr Ramsbottom. A suitable place having 

 been fixed upon at Outerard, operations were 

 commenced between the 20th December and the 

 1st of January last, which was about a month 

 too late, yet boxes were prepared in which the 

 spawn of the salmon was deposited. These boxes 

 were about 18 inches broad and deep, and 6 feet 

 in length, with a zinc grating in the sluice at 

 either end. There were twenty boxes in all, 

 which were filled with gravel or small stones to 

 the depth of six inches. To procure the ova and 

 milt of the female and male salmon, the fish were 

 taken by small nets on the spawn fords at night, 

 and instantly, and without injury, put into a tub 



