144 MAKING A FISHERY. 



are not plentiful. Perhaps the best plan of all 

 is to make a stew in which the yearlings can be 

 kept for a year. By feeding them liberally, they 

 will grow to good-sized two-year-olds, and when 

 turned out will be quite able to take care of 

 themselves. 

 Piscicui. Having determined to purchase yearlings, a 



turists' price " . 



lists. very short study of the price lists or the various 



trout breeders will show a considerable varia- 

 tion in the quotations. One will quote yearlings 

 as low as -£\o a thousand, while another will 

 price them as high as ^30 for the same num- 

 ber. Where quotations vary so much, it is 

 only natural to infer that, provided no one is 

 trying to cut out his competitors by asking an 

 abnormally low price, there must be consider- 

 able variation in the yearlings. A careful exami- 

 nation of the fish themselves will confirm this 

 hypothesis ; some of the lowest-priced yearlings 

 will be found to average something like three 

 inches in length, and be composed of a few 

 full-sized individuals of, perhaps, five inches, 

 among a mass of two and a half inch and 

 three inch ones, with a sprinkling of puny little 

 things of only about two inches in length. The 

 highest-priced yearlings will have been properly 

 sized ; i.e., all palpably undersized will have 

 been rejected and returned to the ponds, to 

 be fed up and kept another year, and those 



