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interest to this season as carrying with it this simpl

luxury. With such magnificent herring as ar

caught about Prince Edward Island, it is a woude

that no “ bloater” ideas have ever taken root, and this splendid, abundant and delicious fish found its way into market epicureanized on Yarmouth princi- ples—but this will be some day; and the Magdalen Islands will be the centre of a magnificent trade in cured fish, adapted to European markets. What. made the Digby herring what it is? Not the DigbyI waters, but the Digby intelligence, that added a value, which though only smoke, established a per- manent and favorable, and peculiar character for that otherwise poor fish in the markets of Europe. An inferior fish,with scales,follows the herring in the spring, called the Alewif‘e, or Gaspereaux, but it is scarcely worth sailing, though it comes, herring like, in schools. We are inclined to believe that what are called Fall herring, is as much a different spectes of herring from the Spring herring, as \Vinter wheat differs from Summer wheat it is in all respects a better article, and we do not see why merely because it is apparently more grown, it should be considered the same as the Spring herring, when there are

more marked differences, not to be so easily account- ed tor and reconciled. The Fall herring, scored

and rubbed in-oatmeal, and nicely fried,make a dish that all lovers of fish must consider a delicacy, and

worthy of commendation.

The Salmonidaz, or Salmon family, comprise the Brook Trout, which is a soft and flavorless fish, when it is detained in the mill ponds, but though comparatively small, is, when in good condition and in the streams below the mill-dams, an excellent and well-coloured and firm fish. There are several ways ofusing this fish. They may be decapitated, drawn, and thoroughly cleansed in salt and water, and packed close in a deep dish, having each been first dipped in weak vinegar, and baked, when they may be eaten with boiled potatoes, and found, if properly managed, most delicious; or they may be, so far as the larger ones are concerned, cleaned