FISH HATCHINGl. 



CHAPTER I. 



I HAVE been entrusted with the honour of 

 bringing before you, this evening, the im- 

 portant subject of Fish Culture — a trust I 

 feel much pleasure in accepting, and which I 

 hope faithfully and truthfully to be able to 

 discharge. I shall not make any attempts 

 at elocution, but merely endeavour to give 

 plain statements of the results of my own 

 observation, and of other friends interested, 

 both practically and theoretically, in this 

 important matter. This subject as yet has 



