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in numbers, as the first. The following year the fish 

 were still larger and without allowing anything for the 

 natural increase, furnished a splendid return for the first 

 investment. 



This addition to the yield of any stream is so appar- 

 ent as to convince the most skeptical. It is not to be 

 disputed or gainsayed, and those who have once visited a 

 trout stream the year after it has been stocked and have 

 seen the young fish then from three to five inches long 

 darting oat at every step from under weeds and roots 

 for the entire length of the stream, will need no further 

 proof that trout culture is eminently practical. In such 

 cases you may almost say that the number taken from a 

 stream will depend simply upon the number you put in, 

 while the cost of hatching and transporting them is as 

 nothing compared with the yield. of pleasure and profit. 

 No brook that has once contained trout need any longer 

 be without a good supply of them. Shad and salmon 

 go to the sea, and when they return only swell the nat- 

 ural yield which varies at best and is influenced by 

 other causes, so the direct efiect is not clearly seen. 

 Whitefish and salmon trout are almost lost in our vast 

 lakes and rivers, but brook trout remain where they are 

 placed, grow and are caught among the residents of the 

 neighborhood, and contribute directly to the support 

 and amusement of the people. Streams that have been 

 wholly worthless in producing food are once more replen 

 ished and are often rendered a very valuable adjunct to 

 a farm or country place. Trout will always bring a 

 good price in market, and the farmer who has a good 

 trout stream or pond on his place can rent the fishing 

 to advantage if he does not care to keep it for himself, 

 and as population increases such fishing privileges will 

 become more and more valuable. 



