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trouble, in the very exciting sport of taking them with the fly, as well 
as a delicious meal daily. 
Well-impregnated spawn can be obtained as low as 10 dols. per 
thousand. 
The cheapest and best time to transport trout is while very small, 
or about the time they commence feeding, say in March or April. Then 
about 5,000 can be carried in a barrel half or two-thirds filled with water. 
They can be transported in this way any distance by waggon or raiL 
road. All the care required is to keep the water cool, say from 50 Q to 
60°, and in constant motion to fill it with air as fast as the trout exhaust 
it, or to change it often when standing still. Trout of this age can be 
had for 50 dols. a thousand. 
Large trout can be moved in the same way just as well, only a much 
less number in a barrel, say about seventy-five one, two, and three-ye ar- 
olds. Trout of this age are worth 200 dols. a thousand. 
With this information, anyone can consult his own desire and purse 
in the manner and extent of stocking his stream or pond. 
From my experience in growing large trout, I would not advise any- 
one to grow them for profit to more than three or four years of age, or 
from eight ounces to sixteen ounces in weight. After this age and size 
it requires so much more to feed them, and water to keep them, and 
they are so much more subject to die, that I find it does not pay. 
I have no spawn or trout for sale, and have never taken or grown 
any for that purpose, nor do I intend to hereafter. I commenced raising 
trout artificially in 1859 as an experiment merely for my own recreation 
and gratification. I have spent some time and money in these experi- 
ments, but have been abundantly paid in the information and gratifica- 
tion it has afforded me in these six years. I have hatched as high as 
ninety-nine spawn in the 100, and grown trout by the 1,000 to weigh 
from one to three pounds each during this time, and all with only one 
square inch of water during the dry weather in the summer. 
TELEGRAPHING IN THE UNITED STATES. 
New York is the centre of the great telegraph interest of the country. 
There are centred the head-quarters, the capital and the talent that this 
immense business demands. The inventor of the telegraph, full of years 
and honours, loaded down with royal and imperial favours, and what is 
of more worth to an American, crowned with the respect and gratitude 
of his countrymen, can be seen any pleasant day on Broadway, He 
was the son of a New England clergyman, a bold man in his day, who 
made his pulpit the fortress in which to battle for what he conceived to 
be the truth in dark and trying times. 
