86 TROUT CULTURE. 



CHAPTER XII. 



CONCLUSION. 



HP HIS little work has been written with the express 

 *- object of so guiding the owner of water in the 

 management of his fishery, that by following out the 

 broad principles laid down disease may be averted 

 and success ensured. If personal acquaintance with 

 all the practical details of breeding and rearing trout 

 can give an authority to speak on such subjects, the 

 writer may well claim that authority, as he has for 

 some years carried on, with his own hands and under 

 his own charge, a small fishery, the success of which 

 has fairly astonished him. When first setting out, he 

 was so much hampered by doubts and fears, and per- 

 plexed about many things, that he hardly knew what 

 course to pursue ; and right glad would he have been 

 to have had at hand such a book as this to refer to. 

 However, in any work on a subject which is as yet in 

 its infancy, many errors will necessarily occur, and the 

 writer hopes that those herein will be found and cor- 

 rected in a future edition, should that be called for. 



Some may very probably grumble at the smallness 

 of this book, and consider it superficial, or think that 

 the subject has not been sufficiently elucidated. The 

 answer to all such objections is that, when really 

 understood, trout culture is intrinsically by no means 

 a difficult matter, requiring years of study; that its 



