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HEN the science of 

 artificial fish propaga- 

 tion arrived at that 

 degree of perfection that nine- 

 ty-five per cent of trout eggs 

 spawned and impregnated in 

 an earthen pan hatched young 

 fish, man believed that this was 

 a great improvement upon 

 nature's methods, though little 

 or nothing was known of the 

 percentage of young fish ob- 

 tained under natural condi- 

 tions. This claim was a valid 

 one, as subsequent investiga- 

 tion proved, when an actual 

 count of some salmon eggs de- 

 posited by the fish naturally in 

 a Canadian salmon river dis- 

 closed upon actual count that 

 but two per cent of them were 

 impregnated. For more than 

 ioo years after the first trout 

 were hatched artificially in Ger- 

 many, public fish culture was 

 confined to hatching trout fry 

 and to planting them as fry. 

 Then another but minor revolu- 

 tion occurred in this particular field and trout fry were rea-ed in the hatcheries to 

 the stage now called fingerling fish. While this was a stride in advance, it was not 



MAKING A LANDING. 



* This article was originally prepared for Outing, and with some slight changes is used in this report 



with the consent of the editor. 



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