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reached its maximum, at least in small artificial ponds, 

 and is on the wane. Every year after that they are 

 kept also increases the general risk. They are at this 

 age of the best marketable size, — very large trout not 

 being as salable as pound-trout or less. 



This question, however, of the most profitable age 

 to market the fish varies with circumstances, and it 

 is one which every trout breeder will doubtless best 

 settle for himself, though the above suggestions may 

 perhaps, in some measure, serve as a guide. 



The New York market is the best market in the 

 country for first-class trout, as it is for game of every 

 description. The Boston market falls very much be- 

 low it, and most of the smaller cities are very poor 

 places indeed to which to send trout for sale in the 

 public markets. 



