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Mr. Thompson : This gentleman has not given it 

 up. He feeds it every da}-, and has done it for the last 

 two years. One 3^ear he reared about thirty thousand 

 fish in a pond certainly not more than twice the size of 

 this room. He is still feeding the Indian meal. 



Dr. Bean : I can answer one of Mr. Mather's 

 questions about the result attained b}^ Mr. Page in 

 feeding rainbow trout with mush made of mill mid- 

 dlings and mixed with liver. I have been at Mr. Page's 

 station, Neosho, Missouri, and have seen there hun- 

 dreds of rainbow trout twelve months old, which would 

 average prett}^ nearly twelve inches in length. That 

 is, I think, rather unusual. He gets larger fish, but 

 these, I am quite certain, averaged as much as twelve 

 inches at twelve months old. I do not believe that any 

 other trout than the rainbow will take this diet and 

 thrive upon it equally well. It may be that the brook 

 trout will eat it, but Mr. Page did n't succeed in getting 

 such results with any other than the rainbow trout. 

 He cooked the middlings thick, mixed raw liver with 

 it afterwards, and fed it thick. I have seen the trout 

 rush at it as if it were ganiniants and dapJinia, or au}'- 

 thing the}' are supposed to like better than an\^ other 

 food. 



Mr. Annin : I fed fry two months old, and used 

 bolted middlings, same cooked separatel}^, and passed 

 it through the finest blade in the meat chopper, thirty- 

 second of an inch blade, mixed with the liver, and when 

 it came out it was thoroughU- mixed. We would feed 

 our two months old fry on it. That did very well, but 

 we had to be careful about the troughs. It would 

 slime the whole bottom of the trough. 



Mr. H. Whitaker : We do not know what can be 

 done until we find out. Mr. Thompson is a benefactor 

 to his race, but he did not know it at the time. On 

 the question of feeding meal middlings, ni}- attention 

 was called two years ago to an experiment made by a 



