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days, by whicli time tliey will grow nearly an incli in length, and 

 are then fully capable of taking care of themselves. This is the 

 period to enclose them in any vessel containing water, and they 

 may be moved with perfect safety until they are thirty days old, 

 after which they must be turned into streams with gravel bottoms, 

 where they will remain for two years and then return to the ocean. 

 The third year they return without fail to the waters where they 

 were hatched and deposit spawn to reproduce their species, weigh- 

 ing ai this time from twenty-five to thirty pounds. 



"Fecundated eggs may be wrapped in wet woolen cloths and 

 placed in boxes lined with moss, to prevent them from jolting, and 

 be safely conveyed by land or water a ninety days' journey and 

 may then be frozen stiff before planting, without injury. 



"Judicious protective enactment in re-creating salmon fisheries 

 in rivers where they were dying out in Ireland, has increased the 

 product from forty tons of fish annually, in twenty years, to three 

 hundred tons. Parliamentary regulations were enforced for the 

 protection of salmon in the river of Newport, County Mayo, and 

 in three years the produce was raised from half a ton to eight tons 

 of salmon and four tons of white trout. The supervisors of Os- 

 wego, New- York, have re-established fisheries in Salmon river and 

 its tributaries by the enactment of prohibitory laws. 



"It will be as easy to stock the Esopus Kill, Wallkill and other- 

 appropriate streams in our State with salmon as your fine pastures 

 with cattle." 



As corroborative of Mr. Pell's statements with regard to this 

 matter we will give some extracts from an " Essay on artificial 

 breeding of fish," by Rev. John Bachman, of Charleston, read before 

 the State Agricultural Society of South Carolina, in 1855. 



He says, "It must be admitted that every elfort that has a ten- 

 dency to multiply and cheapen food and thus afford sujiport to 

 millions of our race, must secure the countenance and approbation 

 of the philanthropist at all times. We are scarcely aware of the 

 immense number of the human race that are supplied with cheap 

 and wholesome food from the waters of the seas, the lakes, rivers 

 and streams. The most important cities of the world are mari- 



