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fry which they are to furnish, are still in their 

 infancy. Only two or three are yet erected ; but 

 the work is going on, and in a very few years there 

 will be one or more on every principal salmon river 

 in the three provinces. Mr. Wilmot, the son of the 

 gentleman who began the business on lake Ontario 

 several years since, has charge of them, and from 

 what I saw of him during my recent visit, I am 

 quite sure that he is the right man in the right place. 



I have said this much on this subject of fish 

 breeding, not because I object to what has been 

 done at home, but with the earnest hope that what 

 I have said or shall say may stimulate our legisla- 

 ture to do more. Our fish commissioners have 

 done well with the scanty means placed at their 

 disposal, and Seth Green, their zealous and intelli- 

 gent agent, deserves the thanks and gratitude of 

 the whole people. But you might as well try to 

 scoop out lake Ontario with a landing net as to 

 properly replenish our barren waters with the fish 

 natural to them from the product of the all too 

 limited establishment at Mumford. 



We are mercifully told that Providence 

 winked at what was done foolishly " in the time 

 of man's ignorance." And while legislators were 

 confessedly and excusably "ignorant" of the re- 

 sults of fish-breeding, no one was disposed to find 

 fault with their excessive parsimony. But this 



