Practical Trout Culture (Classic Reprint) ~ Paperback ~ John Hamilton Slack

Practical Trout Culture (Classic Reprint) ~ Paperback ~ John Hamilton Slack
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Excerpt from Practical Trout Culture "Therefore, honorable and worthy countrymen, let not the meanness of the word fish distaste you, for it will afford as good gold as the mines of Guiana or Potosi, with less hazard and charge, and more certainty and facility." - Smith's Hist. of Virginia. London, 1624; page 248. These words of the original John Smith, written some two hundred years since, were prophetic. Spite of the sneers and scorn of the ignorant, to which few have been more exposed than ourselves, and spite of the wails of would-be pisciculturists, who, dazzled by the imaginary balance-sheets of hypothetical trout farms, have rushed ignorantly into fish-farming and become disgusted that the mines of Guiana or Potosi were not at once opened to them, fish culture, in the hands of able and persevering individuals, has proven to be a thorough and complete success. That many have failed, there is no doubt; but compared to the number of those whose fortunes have been wrecked, if not upon the mines of Guiana and Potosi, upon other equally unprofitable investments, the number is few indeed. Fish culture, like farming, is a branch of industry which, strange to say, is generally though erroneously supposed to require little or no study. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.