TROUT BREEDING AT PAEROA.

Waikato Times, Volume XX, Issue 1668, 15 March 1883, Page 2

TROUT BREEDING AT PAEROA.

Mr* Glofl'-jiey Mvcli.yx, manager of the l'auioa station of the Auckland Agricultural Company, has been most successful inhiseffoits at ti out bLeechng at tlmt place., Last .August he leceived 3000 o\a, part of the 'consignment 'that came fiom Invercargill. The ,o\ r a ai rived m splendid condition, and all the fish woie hatched with the exception of foui. Dm ing Mr Maclean's absence in November, about 1000 of the trout died, owing, it was thought, to their being too closely Lonfincd in the boxes, and on his return ho constructed a p6nd, 12 feet s'4uavp, on the bank of a creek, about a mile from the homestead, to which the siuvmng trout weie tiansterred without delay. The lusciom of this' step is shown by the fact that since then only one fish has succumbed. The water is of excellent quality, and every care has been taken of the denizens of the pond, which are regularly supplied with food once a day. They are now about three inches in length, and Mr Maclean intends shortly to distribute them iv the neighbouring streams, the Orakau, ' Waimakariri, Waipa, Pokaiwhenua and others. This will involve no small amount of trouble and .expense, as it is thought desirable to place the fish in the head wateis of these rivers, where the eels, their greatest natural enemy, are least plentiful. Great credit is due to Mr Maclean for the success which has attended the experiment. He seems to have taken a most affectionate interest in the welfare of his fjnny stock, looking after them personally, and eagerly marking qvery development in their condition,, "and lovers of the i" gentle art " who may heieafter wander with rod and ljne along the banks of the tributaries of tW Waikato and 'Waihou, will keep his name in grateful remem'bfance. ' '

A fyraj's NEJsr, br tj?c Heart op a Tpisn. — '"J\. correspondent writing to a London contemporary says :—: — I'have had brought before my, notice an elm tree, which, on bepig ( sa\vn into plank, exposed to View in itd'beart,' at this'point'some'B^ inches 'in circumference, the nest of a birdj containing thpee eggs, Bityali in"size and in colour, so far as cquld be made out, wtiite; with' small brown' spots; ths shells i were 's'olfV,' d(ie to'tHeir great' age'i- which could not haye been less than thirty-five years, as ascertained f rotn the layers cf wood interposed r between tho nest and' the • itree bark; -• The'bitd had evidently} while the 1 tree' wad f y6a I ng, i built '4t the ' junction 'of ii'bougH witi the-'trunk} this bou^H had, then J be'eri'eUhe'r blown' or cat off, 'and the i ,n'atttr4l growth '6l, the' wood bad by.degr'eeai BurrounEle'd the nest: ' T havei" Wore .soen* , stfarige'^Mngs embedded' in' elm 'frees}' but ' never beforVe'ricqantered an object ao<re*.>