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and in November they had attained a weight 

 of from 2 lbs. to 3 lbs., and were bright, 

 handsome fish of perfect symmetry. In an 

 adjoining pond were 350 of their smolt 

 progeny ready to be released, and in a 

 small rill thousands of young fry of that 

 season. These fish were not' so large as 

 they probably would have been had they 

 spent some months in the sea, but they 

 were thoroughly healthy, and confinement 

 had not diminished their fecundity. 



It was observed that some of the salmon 

 from the Lincolnshire put on their smolt 

 dress in October, 1868, or when they were 

 about seventeen months old, and others not 

 till the same month in the following year, 

 which is the case, too, at the Stormontfield 

 establishment ; so that the period of infantile 

 development is much the same at opposite 

 sides of the globe. 



SALMON FOR NEW ZEALAND. 



We may now pass rapidly over subsequent 

 shipments. The Celestial Queen sailed for 



