Modern Fishculture

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Excerpt from Modern Fishculture: In Fresh and Salt Water The rearing of some fishes is attended with more care than that of others for instance, the trout may be raised in several different ways involving more or less care and expense in the preparation of ponds, hatching appa ratus, etc., according to the system adopted, which is de pendent upon the amount of ¿ow, extent of ponds and the inclination of the owner - and here let me say that in the culture of fishes there are none which require as much care as the trout. It is very particular about the temperature in which it will live, anything above 75 de grees Fahrenheit, except in swiftly running water, be ing fatal therefore its culture is prohibited in all waters where the bottom temperature rises above that figure. Few fish eggs are easier to care for and hatch than those of the trout, coming as they do from October to March, as any running stream is then cold enough, even though its summer temperature would be fatal to the young fish, and the eggs will endure any degree of cold short of freezing solid, even if surrounded by ice. As an off set to this, the young are delicate if kept in confined quarters, as they are likely to be if hatched in great numbers, and not turned into a stream or pond well sup plied with natural food, but kept to be fed by hand and although 90 per cent. Of the eggs may easily be hatched and the greater portion of them may live during the embryonic period in which they are subsisting upon the yolk sac, which remains attached to the abdomen for a period of forty to fifty days before they need food, they are then apt, as before stated, to die very rapidly, and if18 Modern Fishcultm'elln Fresh and Salt W atel'. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.