In France, fish-farming has become a large and lucrative occupation.

I hope our own countrymen, who plume themselves on going ahead in utilitarian enterprises, will show the world what they can do in this.

Surely our New England men, who claim to lead in American industries and ingenuities, will not suffer half a million acres of river-pasturage to run to waste for another half century, when it would fold and feed millions of salmon.

Once they herded in the Connecticut in such multitudes that a special stipulation was inserted in the indentures of apprentices in the vicinity of the river, that they should not be obliged to eat salmon more than a certain number of times in a week.

Now, if a salmon is caught between the mouth and source of the river, it is blazoned forth in the newspapers as a very extraordinary and unnatural event.
There is no earthly reason why the Connecticut should not breed and supply as great a number of these excellent and beautiful fish as the Tay.