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pond into the next, as is the case in trout-breeding ponds, 

 to keep the various kinds of fish distinct. The fry are so 

 small that they will find their way through the finest 

 grating, and it would manifestly never do to send a cus- 

 tomer who had ordered roach, bream, or carp fry, a number 

 of young pike or perch as well! The ponds, and the 

 amount of water passing through them, should of course 

 be adapted to the nature of the fish to be reared in them, 

 and only one kind of fish, or fish similar in their habits, 

 should be bred in a pond. As an instance of what may 

 be accomplished with coarse fish in this way, I may men- 

 tion that last spring Herr Max von dem Borne, the well- 

 known German pisciculturist, placed about five hundred 

 carp (spawners and milters) in one of his ponds, and in the 

 autumn, when he drew the water off before a large company 

 he had invited to witness the result, more than eighty 

 thousand fine young carp were found. 



I have referred to the difficulty experienced in obtaining 

 parent fish for breeding purposes ; there are hundreds of 

 streams and other waters in this country which contain 

 coarse fish, which are considered by the proprietors of these 

 waters as, I was going to say, vermin ; at any rate, they 

 do all they can to get rid of them, to make room for their 

 trout and grayling. Now I venture to suggest that the 

 United London Anglers' Fisheries Society, and the National 

 Fish Culture Association, would find this a most profitable 

 field to work; I am perfectly certain that the proprietors 

 of trout and grayling fisheries would be only too glad to 

 give these societies all the coarse fish they could catch in 

 their waters, and the very finest pike, perch, chub, roach, 

 &ci, are those which are bred in a trout stream. The 

 expense of netting and fish-carriers would not be great. 

 I am led to make this suggestion because, when on a trout- 



