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The following Account of a fingular Method of 

 multiplying and breeding Salmon and Trout, is 

 taken from the Hanover Magazine, No. 62, 

 1 7 '65, and 'from a Memoir, communicated by Count 

 de Golftein, Chancellor of the dutchies of Bergues 

 and Juliers, and publi/hed by M. Duhamel. In 

 the Hanover Magazine, No. 23, 1763, it is f aid, 

 that this method of breeding Jifh had been brought 

 to great perfection by a Mr. Jacobs, of the county 

 of Lippe, in Germany. We do not, however, 

 vouch for the truth of the facls alledged in this 

 Jiatement, as a greater number of experiments 

 would have been necejfary to confirm them* 



A NEW METHOD OF BREEDING SALMON 

 AND TROUT. 



i. Let there be conftru&ecl a wooden box, or 

 trough (oak is the befl), of whatever dimenfions 

 you pleafe ; for example, twelve feet long, a foot 

 and a half wide, and fix inches deep. 



2. At the head of the trough, where the water is 

 to run in, is laid a thick board about two and a 

 half or three inches thick, about a foot wide, and 

 as long as the trough is wide ; in the middle of this 

 board is made a hole fix inches long, and about 

 four inches wide in the clear, with a ravet on all 

 the four fides of this hole, about an inch and a 

 half wide and deep, fo as to admit a fquare frame 



with 



