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Mr. Wood: Tt is a Boston finn, and 1 luive never been abl:> 

 to pronoiince it — S & S Company, on Commercial street, Boston. 



Q. I suppose they get them from Chicago or western states ? 



A. Yes, I have no doubt but what they do. 



Mr. Seymour Bower: A few years ago I think Mr. Wood 

 told me they bought their sheeps' plucks for 3 cents a piece ; but 

 1 cannot find a place in the West where we can buy them for less 

 than 5 cents. We buy them direct from the refrigerator car of 

 Swift & Company, which runs through where our hatchery is 

 once a week. They are delivered in very nice shape, but that is 

 the lowest price they ever gave us. I do not understand the rea- 

 son for the differciico in ])ric('. \ guess we will have to order from 

 Boston. 



Mr. Clark: It is on the principle that our mauufacturei's 

 sell goods in England cheaper than they do at home. 



Mr. Bean: I believe Mr. Seagle has had experience in feed- 

 ing fishes, and I think we would like to hear from liiin. 



Mr. Seagle: We feed our small trout fry, herring ro(\ aud 

 have had some experience in feeding cod roe, but have not been 

 verv successful with cod roe. The fish lived but did not grow 

 rapidly, and we quit it. 



Mr. Bean: Did you over try liaddock roc? 



A. Xo, sir. 



Mr. Bean: ]\Ir. (Tcorge P. Slade, treasurer of the Soutli Side 

 Sportsman's Club of Long Island, and a new memkn- of our 

 society, is using haddock roe as food. His acUlress is 309 Broad- 

 way, Xew York. He wrote nie that tlie food provi'd to be ver\ 

 cheap and excellent for the young fry; that the (isli grow faster 

 and are less liable to disease than ever before. They had bi-en 

 using liver entirely, but last year they began using haddock roe 

 and they are continuing it very successfully indeed. They get it 

 from Boston. 



Mr. George F. Lane, of Silver Lake, .Mass.: I do not know- 

 that I can give you anything further than I gave you thnv years 

 ago regarding the so-called Lane Food for fish. 1 lia\e contin- 

 ued using that same food, as I told the Society at that time, with 

 verv good success: and I think if there is any sudi thing as a 

 coiumereial lish tastin-- of th<' liver, that tliis feeding of th.' food 



