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fished by amateurs with the dy, or the trout are fed, and then 
netted and taken to market. There is no general attention 
paid to the procreation of the speckled beauties. Many of 
the best preserves on the island are depleted of trout by sheer 
neglect. They should divide their ponds, and catch their 
large trout and use them for stocking subsidiary waters. In 
a word, they should tap their dams with pipes, and conduct 
water into spawning-boxes. Where their dams are near a 
road or turnpike, they should run the pipes underneath, or 
place their boxes along the embankment of the dam in such 
position as to torm a rather swift flow of water throughout 
the line of boxes. Nothing can be more simple or safe. The 
trout hatched in that way should be placed in small ponds, 
each brood by itself, thus necessitating three of these small 
ponds. As each brood arrives at two years of age, it should 
be turned into the main preserve, and that preserve should 
be swept annually with a large-meshed net, and all the large 
trout so taken should be transferred to the pond of propaga- 
tion, which should be watched during spawning-time — in 
September, October, and November—and when found ripe 
for spawning they should be netted, and the roe and milt 
taken from them and laid in the breeding-boxes. 
Before proceeding farther, let me say here that what Iimay 
state about propagating salmon is equally applicable to 
brook trout, for the only difference in the treatment of sal- 
mon and brook trout is found in the fact that trout will al- 
ways prey upon roe and young fish—even its own—while 
only the salmon f/e/t is so unnatural; but this maternal ob- 
tuseness is supposed to be acquired from not returning to 
sea with her brood, and, thus left to the mercy of fresh-water 
insects and the scanty food of the river, she becomes what 
the habitans of Canada call a “meagre,” with no more soul 
than a miser. 
