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THE SCOTTISH ANGLER. 



your preserve ; since you thereby are enabled to expel 

 only one-half of its contents at a time, keeping the 

 other occupied during your cleansing operations. 



TROUT PRESERVE. 



a. Trout preserve. 

 &. Sunken mound. 

 c. Enclosure for minnows, 



e. Feeder. 



/. Channel of diversion. 



g. Waste wear. 



e/. Tank, or stew-pond, with h. Outlet of pond, with gate, 

 grating. |. Alders and willows. 



The first, or parent breed, in an artificial fish en- 

 closure, generally grows to a great size, and with as- 

 tonishing rapidity. As an instance of this, we may 

 mention, that some years ago, several trout, weighing 

 each about three or four ounces, were transferred from 

 Loch Skene, in Dumfriesshire, to a newly constructed 

 pleasure pond, belonging to Mr Younger of Craiglands, 

 near MofFat, and that, in the course of eighteen months, 

 they attained, individually, the weight of as many 

 pounds ; although Loch Skene itself produces no fish 

 above twelve inches in length. The present breed from 

 these trout is much inferior in size, owing, of course, 

 to the increase of their numbers, and the minuter pro- 

 portion of food attainable by each individual. We 





