68 Thirty-tSecund A)niual Meeting 



of the largest commercial hatcheries in Xew York, is using hogs' 

 plucks almost exclusively at the present time, and they would 

 not do that unless it was more economical. 



Mr. Seymour Bower : We feed sheeps' plucks costing ,5 cents 

 a piiece and the net cost is about 2 cents a pound, ^^'e prefer 

 them to hogs' liver, which is softer and runs more to waste. 

 Sheeps' liver is almost as firm as beef liver, and is the next best 

 thing to it. It is also more economical, beef liver being very 

 high. During about five months of the year, or in tlie summer, 

 we alternate the regular food of the adult fish with what we call 

 Lane's food, and Mr. Lane can tell you how it is made. There 

 are cor)i meal, shorts and animal meal in it. We like it very 

 well. It costs lYi to li/o cents a pound, and the trout do well 

 when Lane's food is fed alternately with liver. 



Mr. Titcoinl): Is that For the young fish? 



Mr. Bower: 2s o, sir, for the yearlings and upwartl. We do 

 not feed Lane's food to small fish — we feed nothing 1)ut liver to 

 the young fish. We think our larger fish are better off for not 

 being fed entirely on animal food. 



Mr. Seymour Bower: I would like to ask Mr. Wood what he 

 feeds his fish at the present time, and what he thinks as to the 

 relative cost and merits of tlu' kind or kinds of food tliat he is 

 using. 



Mr. C. C. Wood: In the hatchery, at Pl^-mouth. when we 

 are feeding meat, wv prefer to feed sheeps' plucks. We think 

 they are better suited to the fish and not as soft as the hogs' 

 plucks, and we get them from the West — ^^they cost us 30 cents a 

 dozen delivered at our hatcheries, with no charge for packing or 

 anything of that kind, and that makes a pretty cheap food, and 

 it is cheaper than anything we can get at Plymouth, and we like 

 the sheeps" ])1 licks better than any meat food. We feed our small 

 fry on haddock spawn, and that makes excellent food ; and we 

 have good luck in raising fry; later on, during the summer we 

 feed old fish costing us say $2..")() to $').0r) a. barrel — old cheap 

 fish that we grind up and fetul the older trout. The sheeps' 

 ]iluck, as T say, is the cheapest and best thing. 



^li-. Atkins: From what ])oint in the West do you get the 

 sheeps" plucks? 



