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more beneficial than early liberation, ^t present I 

 do not think so. Non-migratory fish, the common 

 trout, for instance, may be beneficially kept and fed 

 in artificial ponds or streams for a year. I am not 

 at all sure of the good expected to be the result of 

 so confining migratory fish. I suspect they may 

 never return to the rivers into which they shall be 

 turned from the rearing ponds. If Mr. Halliday 

 will adopt my suggestion of marking his smolts, he 

 will dissipate my doubts and those of many others 

 interested in every thing that pertains to the natu- 

 ral Jiistory of the salmon, in its increased propaga- 

 tion and preservation. 



This lesson would have contained other modes 

 of breeding salmon artificially had not a flood of 

 sporting news set in, overflowing our wide margins, 

 and leaving little room for sporting essays. I shall, 

 as soon as the flood subsides, resume, and, I hope, 

 conclude, the questions of salmon breeding, rearing, 

 and preserving 



Ephemera. 

 Jan. 20. 



LESSON IV. 



I HAVE received such powerful aid ffom those clever 

 conscientious, and practical correspondents, " Salmo" 

 and " Y." that nearly all the task I proposed to do 

 myself has been executed by them, I could not 



