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done by other fish culturists, but I was anxious to relate it here, 
hoping it might help some other practical men to save their fish. 
Mr. Meehan: Occasionally we have found where fry refuse 
to take food, that the addition of a little salt would sometimes 
have the effect of starting them to feed, that is, a mixture of a 
little salt with liver, not very much, just a litthe—we found that 
particularly in the case of some Atlantic salmon that would not 
feed until we put a little salt in their food, and then they took it 
with readiness. Whether that would work out all through or not 
I could not say, but in our hatcheries it did very well with the 
Atlantic salmon and in one or two cases with brook trout. We 
very seldom had much trouble with regard to the question of 
feeding, but occasionally they would not take food, and when 
they did refuse we found that the salt would help. 
Dr. Bean: We tried that method also but without success. 
We tried another article of food which has been used by a good 
many members present, salted haddock roe, but that did not 
tempt them. Nothing but the food which they wanted, which 
happened to be shrimp, filled the bill. 
Mr. Titcomb: ‘The question of salt in the food has come up, 
which leads me to express the desire that the fish culturists who 
handle trout will make control experiments, feeding fresh liver 
and meat which has a trifle of salt in it. Some fish culturists 
who raise large quantities of Atlantic salmon, brook trout and 
land-locked salmon, use no salt. I think there is a good oppor- 
tunity for control experiments there. This is merely a sugges- 
tion. 
If this subject is exhausted I want to ask Dr. Bean to tell us 
something more about this brown trout work. We have given up 
the propagation of the brown trout. We consider that fish ob- 
jectionable because it is not as good as the brook trout and when 
placed in the same stream with the brook trout we understand 
it is so cannibalistic that it eats the brook trout. It is a stronger 
and larger fish, and should not be planted in any brook trout 
waters, from our point of view. 
Dr. Bean: I do not know just the particular point Mr. Tit- 
comb wants to know about the brown trout work in New York 
State. 
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