The Salmon 



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has rich feeding and has grown to a considerable size it may have as 

 many as twelve rings on its scales when it is only six months old ; but 

 notwithstanding this, in March, when it is a year old, it will only 



Fig. 53. — April 1905. 



Fig. 54. — I oz. August 1904. 



Kk;, 55. — li ijz. Stonuonttield I'onds. 

 I9tli March 190S. 



Fig. 56. — ih oz. April 1905. 



have si.xteen (Fig. 



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I reckon from March, the time the try are 



hatched, and will keep to this month all through. If, then, a parr is 

 hatched in March 1903 its scales will have sixteen rings by March 

 1904 (Fig. 54), and thirty-two by March 1905 (Fig. 55). It becomes 

 a smolt soon after, and goes down to the sea at the age ot two years 

 and one or two months (Fig. 56). We see nothing more of these 



