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soon as this is found to be the case this mode of feeding should 

 be adopted. It has the advantage of being less trouble. The 

 times of feeding, as the season advances, need not be so frequent. 

 No definite rule can be laid down as regards the number or times 

 of the meals, but as time goes on they may be reduced to three 

 a day, and finally to two. As the fish get older they feed better 

 and take larger pieces of food and more of it at a time. 



The daily routine goes on, and the fish become two-year-olds. 

 They are, of course, now in larger ponds, say about sixty feet by 

 eighteen, and four to six feet of water. If only four feet has been 

 run over them as yearlings, it should now be increased to six feet, < 

 and they will grow all the better. The treatment of the two-year- 

 olds is very much the same as that of yearlings, only that things 

 are on a larger scale. The ponds are larger, the fish are larger, 

 the water is deeper and more of it and the food is coarser, and is 

 fed to them more freely. At this stage they may be fed partly on 

 biscuit, which is about as economical as any food that can be 

 provided, but care should be taken to have the right kind. I have 

 seen some kinds that do great injury, and have therefore made 

 special arrangements to have a biscuit manufactured that is fit for 

 trout food, and it has more than answered expectations. At seven-) 

 teen shillings per cwt. it is cheaper than horse beef, as that is the 1 

 dry weight, and there is no waste whatever. It possesses also the 

 great advantage of keeping good for any length of time, which is 

 of importance, one of the difficulties offish culture being the liability 

 to run short of other food during the summer when it is most wanted, 

 and when it must be obtained fresh almost daily. It also makes 

 a very excellent dog biscuit, and is good for poultry or pigs, so 

 that there never need be any loss upon it, even if not all required 

 for fish food. 



Two-year-olds may be taken from the ponds either by means 

 of a draw net or seine, or by a dip net, and of the two methods I 

 prefer the latter. The one I use is circular in shape and is six 

 feet in diameter, and answers all purposes. It also does very well 

 for lifting so-called coarse fish such as perch, roach, carp, tench, 

 minnows, etc. Altogether, two-year-olds are a most satisfactory 

 size of trout to keep. They need about as little attention as at 

 any stage of their lives, feed well, and there ought to be no loss 



