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and they will perhaps eat enough in the excitement of 

 feeding time to feel uncomfortably afterwards ; but 

 they are usually not gluttons enough to gorge them- 

 selves to a fatal repletion. 



Experience will teach the trout grower how much to 

 feed daily to a given number of trout. This quantity 

 varies with the season, the quality, the quantity, and 

 temperature of the water, and other circumstances, 

 and cannot be stated definitely. Green says five 

 pounds of meat a day for a thousand three-year-olds, 

 three pounds for a thousand two-year-olds. I should 

 say this would be an average feed through the year, 

 but in summer my two-year-olds and three-year-olds 

 eat much more. I think it is safe to say that under 

 favorable circumstances large trout of any age will eat 

 one fiftieth of their weight in the summer, that one per 

 cent of their weight a day will keep them in good 

 condition through the year, and that they would do 

 very well on half that allowance. I have also ob- 

 served that with two-year-olds and three-year-olds five 

 pounds of meat food is an equivalent for one pound 

 of trout growth. 



SECTION III. How TO SECURE THE LARGE TROUT 



AGAINST LOSS. 



There is no domesticated creature in the world that 

 can be kept with so little loss as large trout, if care- 

 fully protected. Indeed, the loss is almost nothing. 

 The large trout keep healthy and vigorous at all sea- 

 sons, and very rarely die if properly cared for ; though 

 if they are carelessly exposed they will waste away like 



