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Fisumxe ry AMERICAN WATERS. 
A SIMPLE PROCESS FOR PREPARING A SPAWNING-BED. 
If you have a trout-pond, tap it at the sluice in the dam 
with several pipes of two inches diameter, covering the ends 
in the pond with fine wire gauze to exclude young fish, or 
the eggs ofsuch fish or reptiles as are enemies to trout. Con- 
duct the water through these pipes to rows of boxes about 
two feet wide and six feet long, the boxes from the head one 
nearest the dam resting two inches lower than the one which 
immediately precedes it, so as to produce a current sufiicient- 
ly swift in this artificial stream formed of a row, or several 
rows of boxes, and each row formed of half a dozen boxes. 
One pipe to supply each row of boxes, and then you may 
have as many rows of boxes as you have water to supply, 
always bearing in mind that the water must run continually. 
The waste water, after it leaves the boxes, may be conducted 
by a ditch into the brook below the dam, or into a pond pre- 
pared to receive the young trout. The bottoms of the boxes 
are next covered to the depth of a couple of inches with sand 
and small pebbles, upon which is laid a pavement of stones 
from three to six inches in diameter. The water should be 
as much as two inches deep above this pavement, and fill the 
boxes two thirds full. The boxes are open at the top. Then 
pour the feeundated roe equally over the paved bottom of 
each box, and it will soon find its way into the crevices of 
the stony bottom, and within from sixty to seventy-five days 
the trout will be hatched, and a bag connected to the abdo- 
men by an wmnbilical cord contains sustenance sufficient for 
forty days, after which the tiny creature begins to seek food, 
and should be removed to its pond. 
FEEDING YOUNG TROUT OR SALMON. 
After the absorption of the abdominal vesicle, the fry re- 
quire food of a fine and nourishing kind—erumbs of boiled 
liver in small particles, minced meat or fish of any kind, or a 
paté of the intestines of any animal or fowl; horse-tlesh is 
