INDEX 



ASration of water, 107 

 Animals, injurious, in ponds, 



13, 100 

 Aquarium, construction and 



management of, 234-244; 



stocking an, 241 

 Artificial nests, 35-43 

 Automatic feeders, 161, 189 



Barrenness in fish, 35 

 Bass, black, culture of, 3-48 

 Bass, calico, culture of, SO, 67 

 Bass, grass or calico, 50, 67 

 Bass, rock, culture of, 51, 57 

 Bass, striped, culture of, 207, 



210 

 Batteries of hatching-jars, 



181 

 Bluegill (see Sunfiah) 

 Bullhead, culture of, 60 



Calico-bass, 50, 57 

 Cannibalism, 41, 60, 67, 202, 



205 

 Care of ponds, 17 

 Carp, culture of, 70-84; kinds 



of, 79; value of, 73 

 Cat-fish, culture of, 59-69 

 Cat-fish, spotted, 69 

 Cat-fish, white, 61 



Cat-fish, yellow, 61 

 Chara moss, 46 

 Cleaning ponds, 168 

 Cribs for black bass, 43 



Dams, construction of, 9 



Daphnia, 84, 231, 246; rear- 

 ing of, 270 



Deformities in fish, 253 



Diseases of goldfish, 271, 276; 

 of trout, 153, 155, 198 



Domestication of pond fish, 33, 

 165 



Eggs of fish, characteristics of, 

 109; hatching in jars, 185; 

 of perch, 193, 209; separa- 

 tion of bad eggs, 109, 142; 

 treatment of trout, 136, 138, 

 141, 151 



Embryo, growth of the, 145 



Eyeing of eggs, 148 



Ealse eggs, 142 



Feathering of eggs, 160 



Feeding of black bass, 19, 34', 

 45; of cat-fish, 65; of gold- 

 fish, 270; of trout, 108, 161, 

 170 



Feeding of aquarium fish, 246, 

 270 



285 



