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pay. Mr. Hansen, in Wisconsin, is feeding natnral 

 food, that is, allowing natnral food to pass tlirongh the 

 pond. He gets the benefit of that, and he also is feed- 

 ing them. He is feeding everything that he can find 

 in the way of artificial food. 



Mr. Whitaker: There is a misconception regard- 

 ing the point we are getting at ; at least so far as ni}^ 

 remarks are concerned. I wonld not suggest for a 

 moment that this matter of natural food should be 

 gone into in connection with fish culture in ponds. 

 That is not the point. We can carry all the stock fish 

 we want under present conditions with liver fed fish ; 

 but that is not the question. The question is about 

 rearing fish for market by the individual. There is 

 no question that with the proper amount of air and 

 with the proper installation of aquatic plants in ponds, 

 3^ou can very largely, and perhaps altogether, furnish 

 the amount of food that is necessary for the sustaining 

 of trout and to bring them into excellent condition. 

 But what, it seems to me, we ought to look into is the 

 question of adding, if it can be, to what these persons 

 who have been experimenting in this line claim to 

 have done here. I believe that something still may be 

 added, and that is one of the things we ought to give 

 attention to. 



I agree with Mr. Annin in his remarks and with 

 Mr. Mather ; but I believe that Mr. Annin admits that 

 no fish culturist who carries his stock fish in ponds 

 can be bothered or embarrassed with aquatic plants or 

 anything else. He must have his pond in such order 

 that he can handle them, and they must be liver fed. 

 The writer of the paper said he was so hungr}' he 

 could eat a jackass, and did eat a fish that was partly 

 raw. I do not believe it is necessary to pass judgment 

 on that kind of an epicure, and therefore I shall have 

 to dismiss that part of the subject, because he carries a 

 stock in his pool. 



