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numerous progeny. Even were this fpnnd not to be tte 

 case, — then we have the system of artificial propagation to 

 fall back upon — a system which according to the Parlia- 

 mentary Reports of the Fishery Commissioners has been 

 practised with immense success in different parts of Ireland — 

 according to M. Coste, Member of the Institute, and profes- 

 sor of the College of France, in his reports to the French 

 Academy and the French Government, has answered 

 admirably in France, and according to Mr. W. H. Fry and 

 others, quoted by him in his treatise on artificial fish-breeding 

 has been generally effective in Scotland. This system, as is 

 well known, consists simply of transporting from one river 

 to another the impregnated eggs of the salmon, and placing 

 them in shallow waters with a gentle current where they 

 are soon hatched, and become salmon fry or par and able 

 to take care of themselves. In consequence of the ova of 

 the salmon, which are deposited in the spawning beds in the 

 months of October, November and December, becoming 

 congealed by frostinthe subsequent months, Canadaappears 

 to offer greater facilities for their safe transport than those 

 countries in which the system has been so sjiccessful, but 

 whose climates are more temperate. Surely, supposing 

 this is a mere untried experiment^which is far from being 

 the case — it would be well worth the while of some of the 

 many wealthy and intelligent dwellers upon the banks of 

 our beautifiil rivers to test its value, particularly when they 

 call to mind the well known fact in the natural history 

 of the salmon, that he invai'iably returns to the stream in 

 which his youth was spent, and that ,so they may calculate 

 upon having their present barren rivers stocked with as 

 valuable articles of consumption and of commerce as their 

 fowl-houses or their farm-yards. 



