Foods and Fecd'uiij of Fishes 141 



Mr. Bullock: What you refer to as azotine is called "fishotine" 

 now? 



Mr. Culler: It is the same thing. Well, do not feed that to your 

 fish until after they have reached two and a half or three inches, or you 

 will have mighty disasti'ous results. The digestive organs of the small 

 fish cannot take care of azotine. 



Mr. Bullock : We feed it to bream when they are along about three 

 inches. 



Mr. Culler: I have had experience in connection with trout, and 

 find that the feeding of azotine to the small ones brings about dis- 

 astrous results. 



Mr. Brunson: I have fed everything that it is possible to prepare 

 for fish food — all kinds of dry food, mild cured food, smoked food, and 

 so on, and of all the foods I know I have always had the best results 

 with salmon carcasses, mild cured and freshened in running water — 

 allowed to stand in running water twenty-four hours, then ground 

 through one of those special plates we all use in the fish hatcheries. 

 Put it through that plate from ten to fourteen times; then take beef 

 spleen, prepare that in the same manner, and mix one spoonful of beef 

 spleen to three spoonfuls of salmon carcass. If that is fed through a 

 shaker it will come out resembling little angle worms; the size of the 

 holes in the bottom of the shaker would depend upon the size of the 

 fish you were feeding. I feed them that from daylight till dai'k. Then, 

 I feed one feed daily consisting of a mixture of some cereal with spleen. 

 We used to call that "cereal middlings"; it was mixed with raw beef 

 spleen. With brook trout we would use cooked beef liver and cooked 

 spleen, although the raw spleen and the raw liver is best. In Montana 

 on brook trout and rainbow and native trout at present we use beef 

 liver, hog liver, sheep liver, beef hearts, sheep hearts, fish carcasses — 

 anything we can get, mixing it fifty fifty with cereal and feeding twenty 

 times a day. Mr. Culler has seen some of my fish, and he can tell you 

 whether or not I am getting results. 



Mr. Titcomb: You are feeding twenty times a day? 



Mr. Brunson: Yes. I cannot feed more than that because I have 

 not the money to hire the men. 



Dr. Embody: These are your young fish, when they are first begin- 

 ning to feed? 



Mr. Brunson: I hatch my brook trout out in September and in 

 December they get it, and they get it twenty times a day too. I think 

 the whole success in feeding is in the preparation of the food. If you 

 can get your food fine enough so that your fish can digest it fast enough, 

 you will get the quick growth that is so desirable. 



Mr. Young: A company at Put-In-Bay have been turning out a 

 food which is ninety per cent fish — lake herrings — and the rest cereal. 

 I was sent some samples of this food. The fish is cooked, ground very 

 fine and mixed in with the cereal, and it is claimed to produce wondei'- 

 fully successful results. This food in its finished form is in fine particles 



