322 DOMESTICATED TROUT. 



adding to the world's wealth at the rate of millions of 

 salmon a year. The short-sighted inspector, sacrificing 

 the vast public good that could come from it to his private 

 animosity, like the dog in the manger, will neither do any- 

 thing himself, nor let any one else do anything with it. 

 The good it might do and the credit it might reflect on 

 his administration are sacrificed to carry out his childish 

 threat ; and there the establishment still remains, closed 

 and useless, a monument of the inspector's malevolence 

 and imbecility. 



I am happy to say that the United States Congress has 

 this year (1872) made an appropriation for salmon-breeding 

 on the Pacific coast, and that in future salmon eggs will 

 probably be obtained within the limits of the United States 

 on even a larger scale than they could be procured on the 

 Mirimichi. 



At the time of writing the third edition of this book 

 (1877) I am enabled to state that the prediction ventured 

 five years ago in the last paragraph has been verified be- 

 yond the most sanguine expectation. The United States 

 now has a salmon-breeding station on the Pacific Slope, at 

 the McCloud River, Shasta County, California, which turns 

 out an average of seven million (7,000,000) salmon eggs a 

 year, and is the largest establishment of its kind in the 

 world. 



