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INDEX 



Fertilisation of eggs, artifi- Lightning killing fish, 102 



cial, 131 

 Fingerlings, care of, 160, 163; 



defined, 160 

 Floating-box, construction of, 



194 

 Floor of ponds, treatment of, 



6, 11, 100 

 Frogs, culture of, 215-233 

 Fry, care of, 38, 46, 56, 84, 



Liver-paste, how prepared, 

 164 



Kettle of pond, 10 



Mating of black bass, 27, 30, 



34; of trout, 126. 

 Meat, prepared as food, 164, 



167 



147, 165, 197; emergence Milk, prepared as food, 164 

 of, 146; habits of, 12, 39, Milt and spermatozoa, 131, 



55, 64, 151 

 Fungus, 143, 153, 277 



Grass, or calico, bass (see 

 (Boss) 



Goldfish, 244, 252-282; rear- 

 ing for profit,! 262, 267; 

 varieties of, 255 



Handling ripe trout, 128 



Hatchery for trout, equip- 

 ment of, 105, 111 



Hatching-boxes, how made, 

 121 



Hospital tank, 275 



Insects injurious to fish, 17, 



231 

 Introduction of stock to 



ponds, 17, 29 



Jars, hatching fish in, 178, 

 214 



Large-mouthed bass, 47 



134 

 Minnows as food, 22 

 Muscallonge, American species 



of, 203; culture of, 203 



Nests of black bass, 24, 32, 35; 



of bullhead, 63; of sun-fish, 



53 

 Nest-boxes for black bass, 43 



Outlets of ponds, 13 



Perch, white, culture of, 208 

 Perch, yellow, culture of, 188 

 Pickerel, chain, culture of, 200 

 Pike, characteristics of, 202 

 Plants for an aquarium, 246; 



for fish-ponds, 14, 46, 226 

 Ponds for black bass, 9, 47; 

 for carp, 72, 75; for cat- 

 fish, 61, 66; for frogs, 224; 

 for goldfish, 268; for trout, 

 93 



Baceways, advantage of, 104, 

 127 



