BREEDING OF GAME-FISH FOOD 175 



and work-people protested — indeed a law was 

 enacted — that employers should not feed their 

 servants on Kennebec salmon more than three 

 times in one week — a privilege those employers 

 living in our day would be pleased to enjoy. 



It must not be forgotten that a vast quantity 

 of bottled minnows, pickled in "spirits," are sold 

 as bait in the tackle shops every season. They are 

 really not effective baits, yet I am told by the 

 dealers that anglers want to have them along 

 on their trips as a substitute for live bait they 

 might fail to get when most wanted. I assume 

 these minnows, or young of other fish, are seined 

 in the Great Lakes. How much more valuable 

 they would be to the angler were they transferred 

 when alive to the rivers and ponds where game- 

 fish need them to feed and grow big. A similar 

 unwise and deplorable condition prevails in the 

 sale of vast quantities of live hellgrammites, frogs, 

 crawfish, and crickets, which depletes the available 

 food for game-fishes to a greater degree than is 

 good for the people's welfare in any section of 

 our country. 



In Chapter I are given some points on the "Im- 

 portance of Minnows," and in the "Introductory 

 Note," I plead to encourage the growth of game- 



