. The American farmer. A complete agricultural library, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments and details. k-panswill be necessary, for a variety of pui-poses. Eggs may be counted most easily by measuringthem. For this purpose take any small glass, such as a very small tumbler, for instance,count out 500 or a 1,000 eggs, and with a file make a mark upon the glass as high as theyreach, and the measure is always to your hand. A watering pot with a fine rose spout is used to wash sediment from the eggs on theselves, and a broom of wings is used to brush th
. The American farmer. A complete agricultural library, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments and details. k-panswill be necessary, for a variety of pui-poses. Eggs may be counted most easily by measuringthem. For this purpose take any small glass, such as a very small tumbler, for instance,count out 500 or a 1,000 eggs, and with a file make a mark upon the glass as high as theyreach, and the measure is always to your hand. A watering pot with a fine rose spout is used to wash sediment from the eggs on theselves, and a broom of wings is used to brush the screens of wire. Improving Streams. — Where a person has a small stream on his place which isadapted for trout, but is not large enough to accommodate many, or grow them to a goodsize, it can, at veiy small expense, be made a considerable source of pleasure and profit. Allthat has to be done is, to dig small ponds or long, narrow holes, say thiee or four rods long,and five feet deep, and throw some logs or brush in them. If possible, lay the logs crosswisenear the bottom, in order to have the water work under them and make a clean ARTIFICIAL SPAWNING BEDS. Then all that has to be done is to place some trout fry in the brook above the ponds. Asthe fish grow they will settle down into the ponds where they can find shelter and safety, andwhence they can be taken with a hook and line whenever they are wanted; the danger offouling around the brushwood being an additional excitement to the angler. The fish neednot bo fed, as food sufBcient will accumulate upon the logs and brush. Spawning Season — Salmon and Trout. — The salmon family of the Atlantic States, including the eastern salmon, the salmon trout, the brook trout, the whitefish, and thelake herring, spawn in the autumn and fore part of winter. The grayling spawns in Marchand April, the California salmon in summer, commencing the latter part of August, and theCalifornia mountain trout in spring, beginning with
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