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which have reached a stage when they can take care of themselves,. 
hunt for their food, and feed well when they get it. They are 
also much more capable of avoiding their enemies, and do not 
run the same chance of being eaten that fry do. Next to eyed ova 
yearlings are, I should say, in the long run, the most economical. 
Two-year-olds are larger, and are in some instances available for 
angling sooner, but I would back a good yearling against a two- 
year-old in many cases. They are more easily transferred, are not 
so much affected by the journey, and become more readily 
acclimatized, as it were, to their new water and surroundings. It 
is true two-year-olds are bigger, but the cost of transfer is very 
much greater, and the price of the fish is necessarily much higher 
to begin with. Good yearlings turned out in autumn, where there 
is food in the water, are almost, if not quite, as good as two-year- 
olds turned out in winter. The cost is certainly much less. 
Yearlings require much less preparation for a journey, and 
therefore do not receive such a check to their growth as two-year- 
olds. They travel well in either metal or glass carriers, and in 
warm weather in spring the glass carriers have several times won 
the day. I have often sent yearlings to the Hebrides, Orkneys, 
Cornwall, and to distant parts of Ireland, and they travel as a 
rule without loss. Of course, with such delicate beings a mishap 
sometimes occurs, but it is only one ina crowd. It happens so: 
seldom, indeed, that it is quite unlooked for, and, when it takes 
place, is invariably due to some very exceptional cause. Some 
trout, for instance, were one put close to a large fire in the 
baggage room, by some well-meaning porter, who ‘thought the 
poor things would like keeping warm.” What the result would 
have been had they not been discovered and removed I need 
hardly describe. Occasionally, careless shunting may cause a few 
deaths amongst fish that have their heads to the carriers, but 
these are very few. When yearlings are to be sent away a fine 
net is run through one of the ponds, care being taken not to lift 
too many fish at once. It is easy to slack away the net a little 
before lifting, and so let out a goodly number if necessary, and lift 
the remainder. A thousand fish is a sufficient number to lift out at 
one haul, and as three or four thousand fish will often be in the net at 
once, this. means allowing a good many to escape for the time being. 
