The next process is the stocking it with the breeding ewes of the sea and river.

The female salmon is caught in the spawning season with a net, and the ova are expressed from her by passing the hand gently down the body, when she is again put into the river to go on her way.

The manager told me that they generally reckoned upon a thousand eggs to a pound of the salmon caught.

Thus fourteen good-sized fish would stock the twenty-five troughs.

When hatched, the little things run down into the race- way, which carries them into the feeding-pond.