4 Fish Cultural Association. 
obituary on B. F. Bowles, the Secretary read a memorial on 
the late B. F. Bowles, written by Mr. Livincstone STONE. 
In the absence of R. B. PorTER, Esq:, then in California, 
the following paper was read by the Secretary : 
Having been called upon at our last annual meeting to 
report on Methods of Fish Culture, I will give you my ex- 
perience and some experiments made, although doubtless the 
facts may be known to many other practical fish culturists. 
I shall confine my remarks to methods of trout-culture, or 
of the salmon family, leaving the methods of culture of other 
fish to Messrs. Green and Wilmot, who are more conversant 
therewith. Being so far away from my base, without notes or 
memoranda, I shall have to depend entirely upon memory. 
The method of raising brook-trout at the present day only 
varies in appliances from the date of its commencement in 
this country. 
Brook-trout culture is really the mother of fish-culture, 
whereby our rivers, lakes, ponds, and creeks are already teem- 
ing with countless thousands of fish in many localities from 
the Atlantic to the Pacific. 
The salmon family of our country are now being sent to 
all parts of the world, and yet fish-culture is only in its in- 
_fancy. At the first regular meeting: ‘of thisoAssociation, at 
Albany, N. Y., almost every member ~was interested in the 
culture of trout or salmon; but now “The Anglers fridex 
is hardly thought of, though it is the most difficult fish to 
raise to maturity of all our food-fishes; consequently it is 
likely, I think, to remain a luxury, and will always command 
a good price in market. 
In raising trout one must have the natural advantages : 
ist. A never-failing spring with a good flow of water (the. 
larger the better). 2d. The water must be of uniform tem- 
