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disgorging all the food out of their stomachs that they can. 
If any of you have fished for pike you will probably have 
had ample proof of this. Itisa mechanical process, and, of 
course, ‘depends on the food itself whether it can be quickly 
discharged. If the fish have been feeding on other fish 
they will be easily parted with, but such food as is here 
shown would be very difficult to throw up, as it is so full 
of points and angles to anchor by. The stomachs, there- 
fore, when examined ‘in a laboratory would contain such 
matter only, but only a small proportion of the fish food. 
But that this is a true representation of cod food I utterly 
deny. All members of the cod family are enormously 
destructive, and they alone, amid all the other agencies, des- 
troy an amount of small fish by the side of which all that 
man does is a mere trifle. Hundreds of times I have seen 
this disgorging process, and, with most trifling exceptions, 
the food parted with “was always fish. In addition I have 
‘had to feed large numbers of these creatures for years, 
and have done so with the gréatest success, always using 
fish for food, The avidity with which it was taken 
from the first showed how palatable it was. Further, 
“no fisherman “ardiind our coasts would dream of bait- 
“ing with such subjects as are shown in the bottle 
in the cofidition shown. It does not appear to me that 
_ these are the actual contents of the stomachs, for the 
digestive process is so rapid in fishes that if they were, 
