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A Loving Trout. At the Wintergreen estate, High- 

 land Lake, Winsted, Conn., a brook trout was kept in 

 captivity in a deep spring for seven years. When the 

 fish was fifteen inches in length two other brook trout, 

 a male and female, each ten inches long, were placed 

 in the spring to keep the old fellow company. He 

 promptly fell in love with the lady trout and killed 

 and swallowed her escort. 



Albino Trout. The fish hatchery in St. Paul, Minn., 

 had at one time twenty thousand albino trout in stock. 

 This species was discovered in 1893. There is some- 

 thing peculiar in Minnesota waters which aids propa- 

 gation of this species. The fish are white mottled with 

 red and yellow spots ; the fins are white with red bands 

 mottled with yellow. The eyes are red and the trout 

 has apparently a transparent skin so that the bones 

 are visible through it. 



Rainbow Trout. Dr. A. E. Buzard, of Hayward, 

 Calif., fishing in the Spokane River within ten minutes' 

 walk of the city of Spokane, Wash., creeled eleven rain- 

 bow trout weighing, collectively, seventeen pounds. 



Rocky Mountain Trout. H. E. Peck, of Kenman, 

 North Dakota, and H. N. Stabeck, of Minneapolis, 

 Minn., enjoyed good trout fishing last summer in the 

 Crow West country of the Rocky Mountains. A 

 catch of thirty-one trout weighed, collectively, fifty- 

 one pounds. The largest specimen weighed three 

 and one fourth pounds. 



Flood-water Trout. When the trout stream is 

 flooded, the trout find plenty of food and they gorge 



