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pagatiDg trout artificially. When hatched and of suitable 

 size they are turned into Lake Neufchatel and the streams 

 emptying into it. At the time of our visit to his establish- 

 ment, he was greatly enlarging and improving his ponds, 

 hatching-boxes, &c. The result of his experiments had 

 satisfied the people of his canton, that the project of stock- 

 ing the lake (a body of water twenty-eight miles long and 

 seven miles wide), was a feasible one, and would richly pay 

 for the expense incurred in rearing the young fry and 

 turning them into the waters, notwithstanding the people 

 of the cantons of Freyburg and Vaud, that joined upon 

 the lake, would also get a considerable share of the mature 

 fish. 



" When we witnessed the outlay of money to fit up the 

 hatching establishment at Prof. Vouga's, and realized that 

 it was done by a people numbering less than 80,000 per- 

 sons, and in a territory of less than three hundred square 

 miles, we could but contrast that people with those of New 

 England." 



The first experiment in fish culture in this country, from 

 all I can learn, was made by Dr. Garlick and a friend, at 

 Cleveland, Ohio. Owing to the death of one of them, the 

 enterprise was abandoned after a season or two. Mr. KeU 

 logg of Hartford, Conn., Mr. Pell of Esopus, and Mr. Ains- 

 worth of West Bloomfield, New York, commenced a few 

 years later. Following these, caoiie Seth Green of Mum- 

 ford, New York ; Mr. Vail, of Long Island; the writer, near 

 Asbury, New Jersey ; Rev. Livingston Stone, Charlestowu, 

 N. H. J Benjamin Kilburne, Littleton, N. H. ; D. Qt. 



