The Boy's Own Guide to Fishing, Tackle-Making And Fishbreeding: Being a ...
The Boy's Own Guide to Fishing, Tackle-Making And Fishbreeding: Being a ...
John Harrington Keene
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With fatherly assiduity would he at- tend on them ; and as he brought to bear on the tiny entities the resources of his great and ingen- ious mind, one almost wished himself a fish, were it only to be brought within the tender care of such 172 WINTER ANGLING a fond foster-parent. Mr. Buckland's success in the breeding and rearing of fish was, as a conse- quence, very pronounced ; and his charming lec- ture before the London Royal Institution, on the subject of fish culture (which was afterwards... pub- lished in book form), proves to any one that, so far from the subject being a dull one, it is replete with remarkable interest, and far from difficult of prac- tice. Of course, however, it is impossible for boys in general to undertake the artificial spawning, im- pregnation, rearing, feeding, etc., on the scale car- ried out in the various State hatcheries ; but, as I shall explain in the following pages, it is quite within the means of my readers to artificially hatch and rear a few dozen of trout or young salmon ; and what can be a prettier or more interesting amusement for the student of fish-life, apart from the knowledge it imparts of the natural history of the most important family of fishes in the world ?
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