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through a five-inch pipe with a cap on the bottom filled with 

 holes — put the mixture into that and force the food right through 

 the holes and make it into litde worms about as large as a pipe 

 stem. This separates it so in a few minutes it dries up enough 

 so that when you throw it into a pool it does not crumble ofif, but 

 the worms break apart and the fish will eat this about as quick 

 as they will meat, and by putting it into that shape they don't 

 pollute the pool with a mess of dirt. Whether the salt is a benefit 

 to it, or whether the animal meal gives it a fine taste that the fish 

 like. I don't know, but they thrive on that better than on liver 

 alone. I don't know now if anybody has any better way to feed 

 trout; if they have I should like to hear it. I came here 

 to learn and I think I have learned, but if I can learn any more 

 I would like to. 



Mr. Ravenel : How young are the trout that you commence 

 to feed on that? 



Mr. Lane : Well, 1 feed the fish hatched this spring along 

 this fall, the young fingerlings. 



Mr. Ravenel : In other words, you don't use it much until 

 they are nearly yearlings? 



Mr. Lane : No, sir. 



Mr. Ravenel : You know the use of mush and liver are al- 

 most universal in government stations ; it is very fully described 

 in quite a number of our publications. They start using that 

 within two or three months after the fry commence to feed. We 

 have never used the ground animal meal that you speak of. 



Mr. Lane : Its being ground I find it digests very easily. 

 At most of these stations don't they feed liver in large quantities? 



Mr. Ravenel : They have produced some very remarkable 

 results through feeding in that way, the fish having attained a 

 length of eight inches within a year from the time the eggs were 

 taken ; that was an exception, of course, as the majority were not 

 as large, but I am speaking of the exceptions. 



The President : Mr. Lane, I will inquire if you don't think 

 your meat ground up and cooked and mixed with your mush 

 would be as well as animal meal? 



