Practical Trout Culture
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PRACTICAL J E. SLACK, N.D., WO speak that WO do know, rtnd tcslfQ thnt we have ecen NEW PORK GEO. E. WOODIVARD. ORA-NGE JJCDD GO., 245 BROADWAY. 1872. - Eitrrrd, nccordiny to Act of ongess. in the year 1672, Ur J. It. SLACK, 111 the Ofllce of tlc Lilmrin of jn.rcss in FTnshinton. INTRODUCTION. TEREFORE, honorable and worthy conntrpen, let not thc meanncss of the word flsh distaste you, for it will afford W good gold ns tha mlncs of GuIann or Potosi, with less haznrd and charge, and more ccrtaint y and fpcllity.-hiths Uisl. of Firgitth, hdon, 16 pge 243. Tm.8 words of the original John Smith, written aomc tvo hundred Tears since, mcm prophetic. Spite of thc snccm nnd scorn of the ignorant, to which few ham been morc exposcd than amelves, and spite of thc wails of would-bc pkcic.ulturists, who, dnzzlcd by tho imnginnry bdance-hhrcts of hypothetical trout farms, have rushed ignorantly into fish-farming and become clisgusted that thc mines of Qnirina or Potosi were not at onco opened to them, fish c-ultur, in the hmda of able and pcrscvcring individuals, has provcn to ba a thorough and complcta success. That many hme failed, there is no doubt but compared to the number nf tllose wllose fortunes hmc bccn trrmlied, if not upon the mincs of Cfuianu nnd Potnsi, upon other cquallg unprofitable investments, fhe number ia fcm indced. Fish culture, like farming, i rr brnndl of industry which, strange to eay, is generrrllg though erroneously supposed to rcquirc littlo or no study. We hnrc known numbcrs of c.nsm in which large sums of money have been invested in fish culture by tyros, wbosc only hnomledge had been gained from a few nrticlrs in the cdms of a newspaper, or from the only orighal American m vi IRTBODUCTIOX. work then mitten upon the subject. The rcsult of hok-farming is proverbial that of book fish-farming is cqually disastrou Yet far be it from us, especialIy at the commencement of a treatise upon the subject, to iporc the value of technicnl works they are much, but
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