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If persons owning artificial ponds would remove the trout 

 therefrom in early winter, the young fry would be found in 

 ^reat numbers the following spring. Mr. Seth Green of 

 Munford, Monroe County, New York, is extensively engaged 

 in raising trout. He not only sells the mature trout, but 

 also the small fry and spawn for stockinig streams or ponds. 

 The latter he sells at ten dollars per thousand. The young 

 fry, an inch long, he sells at fifty dollars per thousand. He 

 sells the yearlings at one hundred dollars per thousand. It 

 is much less trouble, and quite as safe, to transport the spawn 

 instead of either the young fry or the yearlings. He says 

 in his circular, that contains full directions for handling the 

 spawn : "I can send them a fifty day's journey, packed in a 

 box with moss. I place the moss box in a tin paU, with saw- 

 dust 80 that the spawn will not feel the change of heat or 

 cold." 



From what has been said in the foregoing pages, it is evi- 

 dent that, with proper management, trout raising may be 

 made as profitable business, with the capital required, as any 

 other industrial pursuit in which a person can engage. A 

 few in Vermont have already commenced upon a small scale, 

 and more will probably do so when the matter is properly 

 presented to them. To aid such in their beginning, has been 

 our object in presenting so many facts, and giving the modus 

 operandi so much in detail. 



In order to have the' enterprise of fish culture , a. successful 

 one, whether in private ponds or in public streams, legisla- 

 tive aid will be required. Stringent laws should be enacted 

 and enforced, embracing the following conditions : 



First, An absolute prohibition to take salmon, shad or 

 trout in any of the rivers or ponds of the State for the space 

 of five years from the time such fish are placed in the streams, 

 under the penalty of fifty dollars for every fish caught, and 

 thirty days inaprisonment in the county jaU, the fine to go to 

 the informer. 



