Up to the present moment, no river in the world has been cultivated with more science and success.

None has been sown so thickly with seed-vitalities or produced more valuable crops of aquatic life.

Here salmon are hatched by hand and folded and herded with a shepherd's care.

Here pisciculture, or, to use a far better and more euphonious word, fish-farming, is carried to the highest perfection in Great Britain.

It is a tillage that must hereafter take its place with agriculture as a great and honored industry.