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lings were sold this year, the demand for this size being 

 larger than ever before. In the fall of 1871 nearly 300,000 

 trout eggs were laid down in the hatching troughs. 



Ten thousand of them were sent to Europe. Most of 

 them arrived safely, and have since hatched. Some of 

 them are in Mr. Frank Buckland's Museum at South Ken- 

 sington, England, and were noticed by him as follows, in 

 Land and Water, published in London. 



" Salmon and Trout Breeding at South Kensington. — 

 The breeding troughs at my Museum of Economic Fish 

 Culture are now almost as full as they can be. The fol- 

 lowing is a catalogue of the eggs and fry : Salmo fontina- 

 lis, or American Brook Trout, brought over by Mr. Par- 

 naby of Troutdale Fishery, Keswick.* These are beautiful 

 little fish, of about three quarters of an inch long. They 

 have almost absorbed their umbilical bag, and will shortly 

 begin to feed. I propose to feed them on the roe of soles. 

 These American fish are much more active, and, I was 

 going to write, — it may be even so, — intelligent fish than 

 our salmon or trout {Salmo farid). Possibly they have 

 imbibed some of the national American sharpness. I 

 think I shall consult them on the Alabama question." 



The Cold Spring Trout Ponds received this fall the sole 

 agency in the United States for the sale of the British fish 

 hatched at the celebrated Keswick establishment, the lar- 

 gest in England. The experiment of taking trout eggs by 

 the Russian or dry method of impregnation was tried this 

 season at the Cold Spring Farm with astonishing success, 

 the yield of fish being 95 per cent of the eggs taken. 

 This method will be hereafter adopted here altogether. 



* The original article in Land and Water, above quoted, 

 states that the fish came from Mr. Wilmot's establishment in 

 Canada. This is an error, as every Salmo fontinalis which Mr, 

 Parnaby took to England came from my hatching house at the 

 Cold Spring Trout Ponds. 



