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accounts for the marvelous growth that Mr. Thompson 

 refers to, undoubtedly. 



Mr. Mather : While on this subject, I was in 

 hopes that somebody from the United States Fish 

 Commission would be here today who could tell us 

 about Mr. Page's success. He is advocating the feed- 

 ing of mush ; I think he uses middlings, mixes it with 

 his liver and other things. He is the only one who 

 has advocated the feeding of any vegetable food to 

 trout, and I should like to hear from some one who 

 knows something on that subject. 



Mr. Thompson : I can answer the question of my 

 friend in regard to feeding mush. I had a gentleman 

 ask me that question, what I was feeding my fish on, 

 and I told him Indian meal. I was doing nothing of 

 the kind. He had a pond with a number of fish in it, 

 and that man went home and boiled Indian meal and 

 fed his fish on it, and he is feeding it today ; and I 

 have to state that he has as fine fish as any in the 

 state of New York. (Laughter.) That man supplied 

 the Waldorf with trout grown and fed on Indian meal. 

 It is a fact. I will tell you what he did wdth it. He 

 did not feed liver, and lliave never fed a pound of liver 

 in my life. I take clean beef hearts and lean beef and 

 grind it up as fine as I can. He took these beef hearts 

 and ground them up, and would put probably four beef 

 hearts in a large kettle that he had, and boil it thor- 

 oughly, and after he got it thoroughly boiled, thicken 

 it with Indian meal. I never saw fish, as man}^ in the 

 same space, that grew as these fish did. 



Mr. x^nnin : I used Indian meal in two places for 

 one year. I cooked the meal separateU', but it is not 

 a success unless 3'ou cook it rather thick. When it is 

 cool and it is not thick, it will give with the water ; a 

 big fish will strike at a chunk, and what he gets in his 

 mouth he will take, but the rest will settle down. It is 

 a bad thing for a small pond. I have given it up. 



