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And this is being done not (as in New York) 

 by a beggarly contribution to a petty hatching- 

 house which one might cover with a good sized 

 Mexican sombrero, situated so remote from the 

 natural haunts of the most valuable fish sought to 

 be propagated that it requires even more care 

 and skill to transport the tender fry where they 

 are needed than it does to catch them after they 

 are full grown. These provincial establishments 

 are placed where nature has placed a man's nose 

 just where they are needed, and just where, like 

 the gratuitously distributed Pacific railroad stock, 

 they can " do the most good " on the natural 

 salmon rivers, where the raw material is at hand 

 (this is not intended as a pun upon the mode 

 of manipulation), and where the product, like all 

 good deeds cast upon the world's waters, will " re- 

 turn after many days," to fill the nets of the fish- 

 erman, the exchequer of the realm, and the pickle- 

 barrel (and stomach) of the consumer. If, as is the 

 case, the spawn or fry is needed for remote waters, 

 either to introduce or to replenish, they are quite 

 as available for this purpose as if, as at our State 

 hatching-house, the raw material had to be im- 

 ported before it can be dispensed with the single 

 exception of brook trout, which are as indigenous 

 to Caledonia brook as salmon are to the Cascapedia. 



These provincial hatching-houses, like the salmon 



