THE HABITS OF THE SALMON. 



No treatise on the art of breeding salmon or that of 

 improving salmon-fishing, can be considered as 

 having a sound basis, unless it starts from, or has 

 direct reference to, the ascertained facts which 

 constitute the natural history of the fish. A know- 

 ledge of the habits of salmon, including the 

 emigration of smolts, their nature and food, must 

 come first in order as it does in importance. From 

 the scientist's point of view, to say nothing of the 

 angler's, the subject requires far more investigation 

 and study than it has ever received. We cannot tell 

 for certain whether the spring, summer, and autumn 

 fish are the same breed or not until we are more 

 enlightened than we are at present upon the regular 

 habits of the fish. No one can be absolutely sure 

 that spring fish, for example, obey an invariable law 



