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same as those intended to be raised in the ponds of my 

 friend Comfort, described on a preceding page, using round 

 numbers. 



Food — Curd for one Year. 



Pond No. 1—10,000 yearling, 3 quarts per day. 



Pond No. 2— 8,000 two year old, 6 " " " 

 Pond No. 3— 7,000 three year old, 12 " " " 



21 X 'Ic. per quart — 84c. X 365 = $.306.60 

 Attendant's wages 400.00 



$706.60 



Annual Sales after the Third Year. 



7000 trout from pond No. 3, 1 lb. each, 7000 lbs. 75c. per lb., $6260.00 



Sales of small fry, 3,000 yearlings lOc, 300.00 



3,000 three or four months old 5c., 150.00 



60,000 eggs, $8 per 1000, 400 00 



6100.00 

 Deduct food and attendance as above, 706.60 



$5393.40 



An intelligent lad of fourteen, under the direction of an 

 experienced person, can manage hatching-house and ponds, 

 and not occupy more than half of his time. Such a lad 

 can generally be found amongst the sons or lads employed 

 by a farmer. In addition to the curd, the offal of the kit- 

 chen, and livers and lungs of animals killed on the farm, as 

 I have before said, can be used to hasten the growth. 



The foreman of a tannery near Lehigh Gap, on the 

 Lehigh Valley Railroad, last summer sold to a fish dealer a 

 number of large trout, which he had kept in a rapidly 

 growing condition by feeding them on the fleshings of 

 hides. 



I give these few instances of fish culture paying, as they 

 have come under my observation, or as they have been 



