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with the Connecticut River, which from having been al- 

 most exhausted, has been so succesfully restocked that it 

 produced in one year more shad than had ever been caught 

 from it since records had been kept. The Hudson River 

 had been also rendered nearly worthless as a shad river 

 when fish-culture was first applied to it, the nets were be- 

 ing taken up and the fisheries abandoned, the price of 

 even small shad had risen so as to exclude them from all 

 but the tables of the rich, whereas now the yield is nearly 

 as numerous as ever, and much larger fish are taken. So 

 while neglected Southern rivers are exhausted, the North- 

 ern ones are being replenished. The same will follow with 

 the fresh waters. If the trout brooks have become too 

 warm from the destruction of the forests, other varieties, 

 such perhaps as the California trout will be substituted. 

 There are millions of just such streams and ponds, which 

 are now nearly valueless, but which could be made quite 

 as valuable as the same amount of land. These will yet 

 all be replenished till the streams and ponds will come to 

 be regarded as the most valuable part of the farm or 

 country place, and millions of property will be added to 

 the wealth of the country.* 



* For thorough instruction in the details of the artificial cultivation of all varie- 

 ties of fish, the reader is referred to a work entitled '' Fish Hatching and Fish 

 Catching' 1 written by Seth Green and Robert B. Roosevelt which exhausts the en. 

 tire subject. 



