12 Modern Fishcultiirc in Fresh and Salt Water. 



work and experience, but this is the only work on fish- 

 culture in any language which gives the experience of 

 others, although one or two of the older ones occasion- 

 ally hint that there were some dabblers in the art at the 

 time they were writing. 



As this book is intended to be original, I have re- 

 frained during the past five years from looking into 

 any fishcultural work, outside the Government publica- 

 tions, for fear that I might unconsciously quote the 

 author. When the opinions of others seemed to be 

 needed on mooted points, they were written to and their 

 answers are given. 



Last, but not least, the book was written because the 

 publishers have been flooded with demands for such a 

 work, and, outside of Government publications, there 

 is no book which covers the whole ground since Norris 

 published ^'American Fishculture," in 1868, now long 

 out of print. 



These seem to be good and sufficient reasons for the 

 existence of a book on Modern Fishculture. 



F. M. 

 April 20, 1899. 



