I40 THE GOLDFISH AND ITS CULTURE. 
care especially to invest his money in a few choice varieties, 
but would rather have a greater number of a less desirable 
kind in order that the lake or pond may contain them in 
plenty, so that they can always be seen, no matter from 
what point. 
The percentage of young grown to perfection from a given 
number of eggs depends altogether upon: the attention paid 
to them, the locality in which they are raised, the season in 
which they are bred, and the variety to which they belong. 
The number of saleable fish may thus be but ten, or it may 
be eighty-five, realized out of one hundred eggs. The rules 
governing the productiveness of ponds are much the Same as 
those that govern the crops raised from the soil. 
There is this difference, however, the raising of goldfish 
is confined almost exclusively to the nicest season of the 
year, and makes it a highly interesting out-door recreation, 
and one that can be begun on the most humble scale at triflng 
expense, besides being an occupation that any lady or gentle- 
man can indulge in with perfect propriety. 
