ON THE BREEDmG AND PRESERVATION OF SAL- 

 MON. 



[The following article on the Breeding and Pi-eservation of 

 Salmon, is the communication signed Salmo, published in BelFs 

 Weekly Messenger of March 5, 1854, and referred to in the Fifth 

 Lesson of Ephemera, on Salmon Breeding, published in the same 

 number of that journal.] 



Me. Editor : We all remember the sensation pro- 

 duced by a late and now lamented secretary for Ire- 

 land, when, remonstrating with the landowners of 

 that suffering country, he reminded them that " Fro- 

 perty has its duties as well us its rights." Every 

 man is conscious of the truth of this remark, which 

 has now passed into a proverb, but few men could 

 have said it so pithily and so well. I intend to bor- 

 row this maxim as the basis of the suggestions I have 

 to offer as to the best means of preserving and in- 

 creasing the breed of salmon, of which it is impossi- 

 ble to magnify the importance. As an article of 

 food, it is beyond comparison the most valuable of 

 fresh-water iish, both on account of the delicacy of 

 its flavor, and the numbers in which it can be sup- 



