. Domesticated trout [microform] : how to breed and grow them. Fish culture; Trout; Pisciculture; Truite. GROWING THE LARGE TROUT. 239 )UT. 1 take and a f iron, *lace a )ut the nto the , netful, ish you ting the a sharp it in the 1 impor- lediately scales to jht, pack ;, nail up hce. In done so Lthin half and they thout ice) this way, s as fresh he ponds, caught by ling. The to whom I d that the packed in this way, came the best of any they had ever had in the house. Yet his house is one hundred and twenty miles from the ponds. The best time to kill fish for the table is, as a rule, that seaso
. Domesticated trout [microform] : how to breed and grow them. Fish culture; Trout; Pisciculture; Truite. GROWING THE LARGE TROUT. 239 )UT. 1 take and a f iron, *lace a )ut the nto the , netful, ish you ting the a sharp it in the 1 impor- lediately scales to jht, pack ;, nail up hce. In done so Lthin half and they thout ice) this way, s as fresh he ponds, caught by ling. The to whom I d that the packed in this way, came the best of any they had ever had in the house. Yet his house is one hundred and twenty miles from the ponds. The best time to kill fish for the table is, as a rule, that season of the year which is the antipodes of the spawning season. The best time, therefore, to begin to market trout is in the spring, just after their spring appetite comes on. They are then hard and plump, and in first-rate condition. From then till July they do very well to market. After that they steadily de- teriorate. As the spawning season approaches, their flesh weighs less compared with their size. They gain very much in weight between April ist and July ist, sometimes fifty per cent and over, which makes it desirable on that account to hold them till July. On the other hand, the prices are besl at the beginning of the season, and fall very considerably by July. My trout, sent to Fulton Market, New Vork, and sold on commission, April i, 1871, brought $ per pound. Before the month was out the price had fallen to 90 cents. The question as to the age at which it is most profit- able to market trout is an important one. I think that it is the spring of the fourth or fifth year. It cannot be earlier than this, for the trout get some of their best, if not their very best, growth the third year, and to kill them before they are three years old would cut off nearly all the increase from them. There are also reasons why they are most profitably killed before they are older than four years. The ratio of their growth to the cost of keeping has then. Please note that these images
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