SECTION I. 



TROUT BREEDING. 

 CHAPTER I. 



INTRODUCTION. 



The breeding of trout was the beginning of fishcul- 

 ture, and this was first practised in 1741 by Stephan 

 Ludwig Jacobi, a lieutenant in the German Army, liv- 

 ing at Hoenhausen, a small town in Westphalia. The 

 claim that the monk, Dom Pinchon, bred trout in the 

 fifteenth century is not well supported. Jacobi reported 

 his discovery some years after to the great naturalist, 

 Buiifon, and the British Government granted him a pen- 

 sion. In 1837 Mr. John Shaw, of Drumlaurig, hatched 

 salmon from eggs taken by hand in Great Britain. The 

 first work of the kind in America was done by Dr. Theo- 

 datus Garlick and his partner, Prof. Ackley, in 1853; 

 but at that time it was regarded as merely a curious ex- 

 periment, having no bearing on the question of pro- 

 ducing food. Public attention was first called to fishcul- 

 ture in America in 1856 by an act of the Massachusetts 

 Legislature appointing three commissioners to report 

 such facts concerning the artificial propagation of fish as 

 might tend to show the practicability and expediency of 

 introducing the same into the Commonwealth under the 



protection of law. In 1859 Mr. Stephen H. Ainsworth, 



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