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easy enough. Take out the red-hot embers of a 

 good coal fire and place them in a box, moving 

 them as it is found the wood ignites. Some care 

 and perseverance are necessary to char the in- 

 terior properly ; but it can, of course, be done 

 without more difficulty than a certain amount 

 of patience and dexterity in themselves indicate. 

 The idea is to make the inside of the trough a 

 perfect lining of charcoal, so that no fungus or 

 other impurity can exist. Curious, isn't it, that 

 carbon, or charcoal, is one of the most powerful 

 antiseptics of nature, and that vegetable growths 

 and all impurities will not attach themselves to it .'' 

 or, if the latter do, they lose all their vicious char- 

 acter and become innocuous. Mr. Monroe Green 

 of the Caledonia Hatchery, N.Y., uses a coating of 

 coal-tar only, and finds it all that is required. 



Thus your trough is finished, excepting the 

 all-necessary outlet. In order to make this, bore 

 a hole seven-eighths of an inch in diameter, and 

 with a cement of white lead introduce a short 

 length of lead pipe. Now, the white lead must be 

 used sparingly, and as little as possible should be 

 allowed to appear on the water side of the trough. 

 It must also be allowed to become hard before the 



