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10. It is concluded that persons undertaking such an 

 entei-prise would correspond witli tlie Colonial Agent in 

 London. The Sub-Committee therefore suggest the pro- 

 priety of this officer being instructed to place such persons 

 in communication with the Town Council of Perth, in order 

 that the latter may be thereby enabled nicely to time the 

 engagement and departure, &c. of the men they may be 

 empowered to hire, and that the experiment may have the 

 full advantage of the experience and aid of men so hired 

 during their voyage to the Colony. 



11. In order more completely to ensure the success of 

 the experiment^, the Sub-Committee, without entering into 

 minutise of arrangements previous to shipment, which would 

 be better left to those more immediately interested and of 

 greater experience in such matters, beg to recommend that 

 young Salmon fry (pars) should be shipped in tanks, at the- 

 same time and together with the boxes of spawn, as the 

 men who attend to the latter could with perfect ease manage 

 the former ; and similar contrivances for maintaining a 

 constant flow of fresh water would be requisite in either 

 ease. 



13. In the event of young fish being selected for the 

 experiment, your Committee would suggest that the trial 

 might, with very little additional expense or trouble, be 

 made still more complete and decisive by shipping, in a. 

 separate tank or tanks, Salmon smolts, about twenty-four 

 months of age, when they would naturally be prepared to 

 migrate to salt water, and to sojourn there for two or three 

 months, and might be expected, therefore, to thrive if kept 

 in it during the voyage, in which case it is scarcely neces- 

 sary to remark, that any quantity might, with facility, be 

 Drocured for them alongside the vessel. 



13. It is not to be expected that the enormous growth^ 

 peculiar to the Salmon during its migration to the Sea, 

 could manifest itself under such circumstances; and it 

 would probably be discovered that smolts, so confined in 

 tanks of sea water, would require a regular supply of food, 

 besides that yielded in the shape of animalculse by the salt 

 water itself. 



