It is a matter of surprise that our country residents pay so little attention to the cultivation of fish, in a thousand places where they might conduct their fine little hill-brooks and springs into beautiful ponds, which would cost next to nothing in their construction. Not to speak of the profit, or the convenience of having a fine mess of fish now and then for the table, the amusement of breeding and tending the fish, would be ample compensation fur the trouble. It is not a difficult thing at all. Trout, to be sure, cannot be bred in every stream, particularly in limestone waters. But perch can be bred everywhere, and they are a beautiful docile fish, and fine for the table. Boys, and girls, and "old folks," can attend to this, - the first to keep them out of mischief, and the others for amusement. Actual labor, there is little of, in connection with it. Fish breeding is one of the round of interesting objects that make up the variety in home attractions in the country; and wherever the water can be commanded, a fish pond should as much be one of the appurtenances of a country-house, as the chicken-coop, or the pig-stye.