108 THE GOLDFISH AND ITS CULTURE. 
desirable kind in order that the lake or pond may contain them in 
plenty, so that they can always be seen, no matter from what poini. 
The percentage of young grown to perfection from a given num- 
ber of eggs depends altogether upon the attention paid to them, the 
locality in which they are raised, the season in which they are bred, 
and the variety to which they belong. The number of saleable fish 
may thus be but ten, or it may be eighty-five, realized out of one 
hundred eggs. The rules governing the productiveness of ponds are 
much the same as those that govern the crops raised from the soil. 
There is this difference, however, the raising of goldfish is confined 
almost exclusively to the nicest season of the year, and makes it a 
highly interesting out-door recreation, and one that can be begun on 
the most humble scale at trifling expense, besides being an occupation 
that any lady or gentleman can indulge in with perfect propriety. 
EFINIS. 
