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destination, it is always safe, although it may not be always 
necessary, to fill up the cans containing the fish with water from 
the river or lake they are to inhabit. Then pour off about a third 
of it, and fill up again, and if the difference be known to be great, 
repeat the process a second and even a third time. The fish may 
then be safely turned out. 
Yearlings are a very good size or age with which to stock 
waters, and over ninety-eight per cent. of the consignments from 
the Solway Fishery reach their destinations in safety, although 
sent quite alone, and to all sorts of places, from Land’s End to 
John O’Groats. In autumn and winter they travel perfectly. In 
spring, as the days get warmer, there is risk, and during April and 
the early part of May, when yearlings are sometimes travelled, 
very much depends upon the state of the weather and atmospheric 
conditions. The influence of the sun on the water is often 
considerable, and after a week of warm days and nights at this 
time of year the fish will be feeding freely and growing also. 
They have to be tanked and starved, and the temperature of the 
water lowered some fifteen degrees by means of ice. This ordeal 
is trying to them, and when at last they are sent on their journey, 
perhaps amidst thunder and lightning, they must run some risk. 
In this favoured country we have cold nights in April and May, 
and during such, yearlings will bear transit till late in the season ; 
but once let the weather become thundery and the danger is 
largely increased, as also is the cost of transit. 
There is no real difficulty now-a-days in the mere work of 
conveying fish, even in the month of July, if placed in charge of 
experts. It is simply a matter of cost, and the expenses at that 
time of year would, I need hardly say, be considerable. Two- 
year-olds, if the way be tedious or complicated, are not absolutely 
safe without an attendant for part of the journey at least. Should 
they become sickly ex route, a little attention soon restores them, 
whereas if left unattended many of them under such circumstances 
would succumb. Yearlings are found in practice to give excellent 
results, although I have many cases in which fry have turned out 
equally well. I say equally well; perhaps I ought to have said 
better, for although the loss by death has been numerically greater, 
yet comparing costs with results, they have compared favourably 
