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In dealing with the subject of food for the 

 young fish, I would begin by impressing upon my 

 reader that the greater variety of food he can 

 give the better it will be for the fish. He should 

 also give them, at any rate after they have been 

 feeding some weeks, a certain proportion of 

 natural food. Probably the best of all food for 

 the fry is pounded shrimps or other crustaceans. 

 It is, however, difficult in the very early stages 

 of the trout's life to pound shrimps up small 

 enough, and the little fish are much given to 

 trying to swallow pieces of food which are too 

 large for them to manage. This evil proclivity 

 often causes the death of the fry, and therefore 

 great care must be taken that no pieces of food 

 which are too large, get into the rearing box. 

 Pounded liver shaken up in a bottle with water, 

 and after the larger particles have been allowed 

 to settle at the bottom, poured into the rearing 

 box in small quantities, is a good form of food for 

 the alevins when they first begin to feed. The 

 yolks of eggs boiled for about half an hour 

 and pounded up, dog biscuit very finely 

 pounded, or the fine food supplied by several of 

 the fish cultural establishments are also excel- 

 lent. In giving moist food such as pounded 



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