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The Salmon 



May 1 90S and lasted till December, and their weight was from 20 to 

 45 lbs. The sixth run, which begins in December 190S, will continue 

 till December 1909. These will be few in number, and will weigh 

 irom 30 to 70 lbs. This is the first return of all these runs of fish 

 from the sea, and none of them have yet spawned. 



From the books on the natural history of the salmon and the 

 experiments at the Stormontfield Ponds, I, like most other people, 

 was led to believe that Q-rilse returned from the sea the same season 



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Kli;. 12. — Sinult, showing \v>\\ ring is fasteneil in dursal fin. When 25 Ihs. this ring is 



complete]}' filled up. 



as they went down as smolts. Mr. Brown, as mentioned in his book 

 ot the History of Sloriiioiit field Ponds, marked many smolts for se\'eral 

 years by cutting off the adipose fin. Many smolts were afterwards 

 captured without the adipose fin, and these Mr. Brown put down as 

 his marking. From a study of scales, however, I concluded that 

 Mr. Brown and others were wrong in believing that smolts returned 

 so soon, lor I could find no scales of grilse that had not been more 

 than a year in the sea ; and not being satisfied with the various 

 methods of marking fish, I determined to mark them in such a way 

 as they would be known all through life. The cutting off of the 



