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restrict the most perfect freedom in its use. If it is 

 essential to turn a stream of water over some fish, in 

 an unusual place in the house, for a week or so, there 

 should be no such obstacle in the way of it as the 

 danger of exposing tools, or microscopes, or any uten- 

 sils, to too much dampness. Therefore I would have 

 the hatching house, or hatching room, devoted to the 

 water, and have all other considerations so subordinate 

 to this that you can deluge the house with water at 

 any time you like, without doing any harm, and without 

 any feeling of restraint, on account of things in it be- 

 ing injured by the dampness. 



This is the reason why it is not best to use the 

 hatching room for the other purposes mentioned. 



The buildings or rooms which I would recommend 

 are, a meat-room, an office, a storeroom and carpen- 

 ter's shop combined in one, and an ice-house. 



i. The meat-room. You should bear in mind that 

 a stock of ten thousand large trout will consume at 

 least forty pounds of meat a day ; this is over a thou- 

 sand pounds a month. 



This food must first be cut up, and some sorted 

 out for the young fry and some for the old trout. 

 Then the meat for the large fish must be run through 

 a coarse meat-cutter, and that for the small ones 

 through a finer one, and the meat must be kept 

 thawed out in the winter, and fresh in the sum- 

 mer. This handling of the meat, sometimes a thou- 

 sand pounds in a month, sometimes more, and keep- 

 ing it in the right condition in all seasons, is no 

 small task, and unless it has a separate room devoted 



