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THE TROUT 



FIG. 15. 



the sieve, sbldered round a circular base of plain 

 zinc (fig. 15). To use the feeder you dip it in the 

 water in the rearing-boxes and shake 

 it gently. A cloud of finely separated 

 particles will be disseminated in the 

 water, while any larger fragments will 

 remain behind in the cylinder. 



Healthy fry will eagerly snap up 

 and devour the minute mouthfuls 

 which float past them ; and, with 

 regular and careful feeding the greedy 

 little fellows will soon learn to recognise the feeding- 

 spoon and, like Oliver Twist, to boldly ' send up their 

 plates for more.' The appetites of healthy fry are 

 indeed prodigious, and unless they are regularly and 

 frequently fed they will take to nibbling each other's 

 tails and fins a most undesirable habit. 



There is not very much fear of your feeding them 

 too often. And with the constant cleaning which 

 the boxes should receive, the unconsumed particles 

 of food will have no time to decompose and con- 

 taminate the water, or even to render it sickly and 

 unwholesome. 



Of course you must not discharge among the 

 fry more than a small quantity of food at one time, 

 otherwise some of it will sink to the bottom, and be 



