Mr. H. Whitaker: You advocate taking as much 

 care of them as possible for the first year, to give them 

 size, and then turning them out for natural food ? 



Mr. Thompson: Yes, sir; I agree with Mr, 

 Mather that liver tastes good sometimes, but we do not 

 believe in paying a dollar a pound, and you and I and 

 any man knows we can buy liver for less. We like 

 good calf's liver, but we like other things with it, a 

 little salt and pepper, butter, and a nice piece of bacon 

 fried with it, and then it may be very good, provided 

 we are hungry ; but when we go into a place and sit 

 down and pa}' a dollar for lunch, we do not care to 

 have liver fed fish. We like a natural trout. I can 

 easily detect the difference between a liver-fed fish and 

 a fish fed naturally from a river. 



Mr. Titcomb : You have spring water, and food 

 naturally coming from the water, as I understand it, 

 out of the ground ? 



Mr. Thompson : It bubbles right up. 

 Mr. Titcomb : Apparently a natural spring ? 

 Mr. Thompson : x4n artesian well. We feed that 

 artificially. 



Mr. Titcomb : I thought you said they got their 

 own food. 



Mr. Thompson : There are some on the side pond. 

 I will refer to an experiment we have been trying, this 

 year. We thought that probably we took a little too 

 much pains to clean our ponds out too well. I found 

 a little place that was made a year ago. I tried to 

 grow some there, but did not have as good success, and 

 did not grow them as fast as I did this year, and the 

 place has not been cleaned within the 3^ear, there being 

 a certain growth of fungus that comes up, water grass, 

 etc., and we let it stand and it stores more food for us 

 than in years before. 



Mr. Annin : I think it would be right to correct 

 one opinion that might go out in this discussion. I 



