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of a top-dressing to Grass land, in its being let a cartload of sharp pebbly gr avel eA in mj I have called these little things 1 but this 
the means sof e the manure with which it is of the pebbles fi m gue zel nut to we rev is ſor want of a better name (not having a work on 
mixed too long the thereby exposing it to be deposited, level it . las tthe water | Natural History to refer to which — ive 
drought and frost, which every one knows tend t ill flow verad over it as — ost - — or 4 3 H ow proper one), but they are in appearance, or reality, 
en its properties. I have — 3 wn manure, | you will then have a * g est kind, a esh-water shrimps, and d about in the water whem 
with ithe usual admixture of s when well | you will a0 that the fish are not — avail ye | — pretty much in the same manner. The aqua tie 
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managed and rotted, applied to Gece Tand, — it did 
not remain more or less visible for may sa 
months, and it would be singular i iri in in thi nat of 
fro 8 weather did not to damage 
chopped or cut into 
r —.— of boch e pete: 
nightly), is to render 
the 
on — 
d dried by the — of 
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explain, and I . 
at the result has been successful. 
BREEDING TROUT. 
which have come under my own observa- 
t a 
es in the 
uri ons summer, and of these, when s 
not able to ye . Ne iA but a large proportion 
ascend tlie rooks and depo osit their spawn in 
4 
pawning, I am 
„ trout does when ni. 
is to root up the „ This serves t 
off |t xamined i 
11 1 d 1 — it too m 
e 
before th 
a great ma 
ene a And h pra r I 
Sir George 
„ his book of th of pen akei says that the 
selves of the conveniences with which you have provided | larvæ, which are m 
them, This ought to be done not later than the fat japon nglers as cre arvæ of the 
week in Oetober in most brooks, as trout in many d y fly (stone fly of the south of England), and th 
tricts are spawning very soon after this time. ae upright-winged flies, known as drake: ne which in. 
wo or three years ago a gentleman of fortune in thei eir turn serve as food for fish, flies. 
rkshire, who wishe k a small lake he has with | inthe angler’s estimation. "The Ms — — , which 
improved variet te to me to request I is one of them 22 rises from the of the water 
w send an experienced and trustworthy —_ to myriads in sunny — in yaren 905 2 and 
him, as he wished to send him into various parts of the is caught by the trouts as the have sometimes, 
kin ne trout. were celebrated for a size when taking my hoo Ai one mouth of a large 
and flavour, that he might there Dave fertilised roe, for | trout which had been feeding on these seen him 
se of replenishing his ning boxes, and e a mass of them almost as wap thumb. 
thus storing his lake with I accordingly | I rious transformation which 
nt a man, every way r such a mission, | undergo, as without any chrysalis or % bl tate they 
and e ished with eredentials; he ined roe in change almost in a moment fi m ereeping at the bottom. 
obtaine 
f the — — as were duly 
— when the proper re taken, and 
from his mouth I gathered the he following particu ulars :— 
— r a spawni — I some- 
— — — the . ing on. 
h, and the roe oated down the 
of the water to flying abcut in the air. 
„ Ephemera” at salmon will not spawn in fresh 
2 gravel in 
etually stirs — up from the 
little trouts began 
the — evidently on the — à gene- 
In up th any a —— stream is sor that the ht nt: — ve 
sate A 
t for sp 
wading e brooks alight at night —— 
of spawnin fish — we fou — ing, — experienc 
e little trouts waiting — some of which we benen — — fish have been en spawning by the fres 
— roe in them, in many and b; ‘ 7 é 
instances peer of it up to the When I got back 
to Mr. —’s, I examined the — of his lake, and found 
ould hold in 
two hands; ho ld the spawn get -oroni in 
this . morsel, which, when one pair had spawned 
was taken —— of by another pair? 
idl, in all von — I visited, I fou sad 
decency in this — and 1 2 as certain as I of decay. Besides this, the embryo is 
of my exis iene, — . upon —.— itself in the shape of a bright red sp 
of the eggs which would otherwise — are des royed — ovum. ese 2 I shall 
for want of gravel at the time of spawning. en 
I ‘had seen w deficient r. —’s feeder in ——— 
gravel, I immediately directed two or three cart baits t 
be put in the stream, and levelled down, — next morn- Hom po 
ing I found 15 pairs of fish spawning in the gravel.” We oo rs stem of Husba 
ese are hich I sub to the considera- | the“ Word in Season” 
tion of gentl having N streams, and I think oo dough ee pages of the culti 
the due observance of the fe eee ae tot s proposed to him 5 a 
made, and rict look-out for oachers e | Bru — — Ist.“ Can the Weedon s 1 of 
me time, will enable them to store their rivers 92 husbandry be carried out 3 of 5 or 5 
th h. No doubt out any horse service whateve 
ackenzie, and after him“ Ephemera “(in 
water-ouzel i 
and trout roe. If he has 
tront, &e., all | feed p 
proz apon wi threat vii an a t such | portunities of observing anging a ous, 
times if you catch them pt see — frequently find | stream — they used to feed maa . bad young, Diggings by a F. ; 
— are . with roe. After this and, notwithstandi aterto have overlooked or to be wi 
vel is loosened the female . her spawn in the | i mpossible for birds to waik at — bottom of may wal — er | tracts of aroun Lincoln 
se gravel, as the ova are very slightly . because their bodies are of less ee 2 j the st, Wildmore, and Holland ‘Fens, as he 
Ban ths water, they roll down until they come to the | have seen them do so many a = rton | spea aks of Peat farms Pre in the fens. fens. 
interstices of the gravel, into which car a penetrate as — — rgot that there pe ae ‘pr robability | alluded to were he the ater, 
if they were alive, dropping down they come to | that can leasure Ae the va fe of a = and extensive decoys -men 
ietħing like a solid bottom, where they are effectually | — — their bones, and other realising a considerable revenue = the sale of the 
secured from the s trouts and other fish which prey | body. If — — this, may not — — — . — wild fowl fitva therein. Large flocks of geese were 
F gaa them, yet there are o emi e | than the also bred there, amongst the ks, rank 
water-lice and the |. of e insects which — — — can exhaust their air-bladders, in „ and tall withering Reeds. : 
tan and do find them even there. at measure, as every one nt many heke and there dotted this miserable and 
But now for the evil anditsrem ch we seem at | well knows. Their araa in a pool is frequently betrayed | What a change came o'er the se 
Present to have lost sight of. The sm it brooks, in which | by the air-bubbles which rise to the surface fens : the lands were well drain 
e fi el tha he water, particularly after they have been e wnships exed to the o 
e time; then, if they dhilis get eter a stone | common therein, and arenow subdivi 
or F. they will * as —— y enn; h The 
suppo readily and in favourable seasons produces h 
effectnally, they heey — bunnies of air from the | Oats, Beans, and si In some 
ey | mouth — as the fishermen call it the otter also, | occur, occasioned t 
when hard hun pess xog requently betrays his whereabou ts months together, followed by very 
in the same m generally those seasons are the 1 
| I have said that water: lice and aquatie larvee prey | impr ts have been ithir 
q upon the ova of fish, but it is not so easy to prevent — by = improvement of the bl 
i small fish which also | and the underdraining with pi 
3 no sooner does a grain or two of th 
eng 
ee 
— of n moisture are so 
injurious ; and the 8 4% 
e- boar s recomended by M . Mechi and others, do not 
remove h pr evit ct any of your correspond 
