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If you will feed a child once a day, it may live and get 

 along in a certain wa\', but if 3^ou feed it three or four 

 times a da}' it grows better ; and if 3'ou will devote the 

 same attention to fish, and feed them often, I think 

 you can raise fish fast and profitably. 



The place I have reference to is on Long Island, 

 well known to very mau}^ here, I presume. We do 

 not feed to the fish which we eat an}- artificial food 

 wdiatever. We grow a fish until it is half an inch, and 

 then turn it down to the lower pond, and the}^ do not 

 get an}' more artificial food. We do not feed any arti- 

 ficial food during the month of October, when we pre- 

 pare to turn them out to spawn and let them go down 

 to the lower pond. In the upper pond we feed and 

 grow our fish as fast as we can, until we get them a 

 size large enough to catch, and then we let them down 

 to take care of themselves. In that pond we have the 

 tide water. The only thing between our lower pond 

 and the tide water is an inch mesh screen. The tide 

 ebbs and flows into that pond the same as in Long 

 Island Sound. We have a pond about one hundred 

 feet wide and twelve hundred feet long, and in it there 

 are about 20,000 fish ; and I guarantee that you 

 cannot catch a poor fish in it, one that is not in flavor 

 and condition ecjual to any fish, I do not care where 

 you look for them. This has been our experience, and 

 I would like to have any gentleman in this room visit 

 the place and take a look at it. 



Regarding this animal food, etc., I cannot talk 

 from experience with our fry. It is getting this ani- 

 mal food. There is a little spot where I put down a 

 six-inch pipe and get fifty gallons of water a minute, 

 just as clear as air, and there I have my fry. They 

 are doing well. It certainly is not from the manure 

 that washes down or anything of that kind. I will 

 show you fry that have never had a particle of artificial 

 food ; and I say that they are away ahead of those that 



