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CHAPTER XVII. 



TROUT CULTURE. 



ORIGIN OF THE ART OF PISCICULTURE; ITS 

 GREAT IMPORTANCE AND UTILITY ; METHOD 

 OF PROCEDURE ; SPAWNING ; HATCHING ; 

 TIME REQUISITE FOR VIVIFYING AND REAR- 

 ING ; THE WET AND DRY PROCESS OF 

 SPAWNING ; HATCHING APPARATUS. 



THE immense progress yearly achieved both at 

 home and abroad in the artificial cultivation of 

 well-nigh every variety of fish, cannot fail to be noted 

 with pleasure by fishermen generally. It would be 

 difficult to say who really originated the system of 

 artificially propagating fish : certain is it that it was 

 unknown and unpractised by the ancients. Perhaps 

 the earliest writer upon it was Jacobe, a German, who 

 lived in the last century, a translation from whose 

 book is given by Yarrell.* His proposals would not, 

 however, seem to have been followed out, as until 

 within the last forty years nothing further appears to 

 have been written upon the subject About this 

 time two French fishermen, Gehin and Remy, of 

 La Bresse, in the Department of the Vosges, first 



* Vol. ii., pp. 8796 



