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what he would when fat and in his best condition. 

 This is a great difference, it is true, but it is a fact. It 

 is said by medical authorities that a man cannot lose 

 over three eighths of his weight and live. It is not so 

 with a trout; he can lose full fifty per cent and live. 



Section II. — The Commissary Department. 



The question of food for trout is a very important 

 one, and I think, as a general thing, a very simple one 

 too, though some printed remarks on the subject have 

 made it appear complicated. 



The one correct thing to feed trout on, as a rule, is 

 the heart, liver, and lungs of animals killed for market. 

 These combine the three desired points of trout food. 

 They are cheap, nutritious, and accessible. 



They are Cheap, 



averaging in the country about thr e cents a pound. 

 It is true that liver in thickly settled places costs ten 

 cents per pound, and if you should feed the trout en- 

 tirely on liver in those places it would be very expen- 



aerated by an air-pump, to my pond in Stanley, Morris County, 

 N. J., but afterwards died in consequence of too liigh a tempera- 

 ture in the water. The first weighed ten (lo) lbs. by steelyard 

 within a half-hour after death. It is now in a glass case in my 

 office in New York. The g^ lbs. trout was sent to General Grant. 

 Two of the trout from these waters I have sent to Professor 

 Agassiz, in 1863 and in 1867, and in a personal interview he pro- 

 nounced them real Brook Trout [Sabno foiitinalis). 

 Faithfully yours, 



GEO. SHEPARD page, 



Pres't Oquossoc Ang. Ass. 



