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sive feeding. But the lungs are quite as good food 

 for trout as liver, and better in some respects. The 

 lungs can be bought in any community for two cents 

 a pound. Sheep's and lambs' plucks can also be 

 bought for the same. As a general thing, in the more 

 thickly settled places the lungs and sheep's plucks are 

 cheaper than in the country, because of the greater 

 number of animals killed in such localities. While 

 food can be bought at these figures, trout can be profit- 

 ably raised at half the present market-prices. This 

 kind of food is accessible. Wherever there is a com- 

 munity of any size, cattle and sheep are killed for its 

 support, and wherever these are killed the plucks may 

 be procured. This class of food can always be ob- 

 tained also at the great cattle markets, like Brighton 

 and Cambridge in Massachusetts, where it can be 

 bought so low, that, with a hundred miles' express- 

 charges added, it will not cost over the average price 

 in the country of three cents a pound. 



They are Nutritious. 



The plucks of animals, being solid fresh meat, are 

 the most nutritious food in the world for trout, and 

 cannot be objectionable in this respect. This food, I 

 should say, then, should form the chief reliance of the 

 trout-grower. 



To prepare it for the fish, run it raw through a 

 common sausage-grinder, and it is then ready to feed 

 to them. 



Various other things can be used for food, and the 

 best among these are : — 



