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ordinary tin-canful will be enough to put in the 

 box. About every two weeks replace the old 

 sod and loam with fresh. The best feed for the 

 worms, says "R. P. L." who notes all these 

 interesting details in a letter to Forest and 

 Stream is coffee-grounds mixed with corn- 

 meal. (There was another detail, a most de- 

 licious one, concerning male and female worms, 



that Mr. Li no! we will say no more; we 



forbear because of his many good works.) 

 When feeding, dig little wells here and there 

 into the earth and place in them some of the 

 mixture. The worms will learn to find the 

 places in short order. They should be fed once 

 a day, and a couple of fistfuls is enough for a 

 feeding. To "call up" the worms dash a couple 

 of dippers of water on the surface; and this 

 should be done once in a while to keep the earth 

 moist. You can start this breeder in the Spring, 

 or not later than June, and a couple of these 

 boxes will supply an abundance of worms even 

 in August, when they are as scarce as hen's 

 teeth. 



Other forms of natural bait, for fresh-water 

 fish generally, include minnows and other small 

 fish, crawfish, hellgramites, the pupae of the 

 dragon-fly, shrimp, snails, grasshoppers, crickets, 

 June-bugs and other beetles, small frogs, field- 

 mice, bluebottle-flies or a few similar, abundant 

 species of other large land flies having two flat 

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