REARING THE YOUNG FRY. 185 



desirable to change them before summer, and it is very 

 important to put them in a suitable place when they 

 are changed ; and to effect this the following points 

 should be secured, namely : 



The young trout, when removed from the hatching 

 troughs, should be kept, 



Where they will feed well. 



Where they will be safe from their natural enemies. 



Where nothing can get in and nothing can get out. 



Where no fungus can come to them. 



Where the water cannot run oven 



Where they cannot remain permanently out of sight. 



Where the water supply cannot be cut off by accident. 



Where the fish can have new, unused water. 



Where they can find shade. 



Where there is plenty of room. 



The first six points were fully unfolded in the chap- 

 ter on rearing boxes ; so I will here simply refer the 

 reader to that chapter, and pass on to the considera- 

 tion of the remaining points. 



It is essential that the young fry be kept where there 

 is no possibility of the water supply being cut off, even 

 by the most unexpected accident. It is ^^possibility 

 that you want to guard against, not the probability. 

 My excuse for mentioning so obvious a principle is, 

 that persons are so careless about this very thing. 

 Though they may have expended hundreds of dollars 

 to get their fish where they are, and have taken pains 

 to have everything else safe, they will sometimes 

 leave a faucet or a spout in such a way that it is quite 

 possible for some accident to close the faucet or mis- 



