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Show Breeding Trout. An Elgin, III., correpondcnt of the Western Eiiral says: AnV gorxl, cool spring water which does not get warmer than sixty-live degrees in summer is suitable, and it makes no dilVcrence if it be hard or soil. The water used by .Scth Ureon. the cele-i cele-i bra tul pisciculturist, is hard, and I j have visited many fisheries in the ; East and find the trout doing as well I in hard as in soft water. It should 'not, however, be loo strongly impregnated impreg-nated with iron or sulphur. 1 have trout in many places m Illinois and they are all doing well, and, comparing compar-ing these with trout of equal age in the East, I find them fully as large as any I examined, the water wc use being hard lime water. In lniiMmg ponds, care should be taken not to build them too lsii-ge the amount of water. For example, with a one inch pipe of water, a pond ten feet wide, thirty feet lun, from three to lour feet deep is large enough. ; If made out of earth anil the ground ! is so orous that it has to be curbed, then live feet wide, thirty long, and three to four feet deep will be ample. If there be sufficient fall, say one or j two feet, another pond of equal size could be built, and the water would lie purified and aerated by the fall so that the last pond would be equally as good as the first. A pond of this mzc weuld support from tlu-cc to five hundred trout, until they reach the age of two years, when they would weigh from one-half to one po.md each, and would require but little1 feeding the second year. ! Trout grow to weigh from three to i four pounds at four years old, and commence laying eggs the second year after being hatched. The spawning season is from the first of November to the first of March. The best time for moving trout is when the weather is cool, or say up to the last of May. It requires seventy days for trout eggs to hatch. Our eggs are all hatched for this season, and I shall take the young trout from the hatching hatch-ing house and turn them out into the pond before the first of June. The natural foot! of trout is insects and other living animal matter. No vegetable food is taken, but in arti-licial arti-licial ponds, they are usually fed on hashed liver and lights, and other cheap animal foot!. Jiurtd Xcic Yorkvr. |