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from the can in any one especial place. No matter how tempt- 
ing this particular locality appears. Always a few should be 
dipped from the can and distrtbuted along the shores of the pond 
and in the places by the brookside prepared for them. They now 
soon learn to care for themselves. When the fry is very smali 
no attempt should be made to feed them for there ought to be a 
good and sufficient supply im the waters of the brook and pond. 
A little later small schools of fry will be discovered at different 
localized areas, and then feeding can be begun. If angle worms 
are chopped up into small pieces, they make the very best food 
possible and a natural one. 
Of course this would be impossible where there might be 
many ponds or one pond that covered too much territory, but in 
a medium sized pond, it is not at all difficult. The luscious deni- 
zen of the world below the grasses may not be easy to obtain and 
the next food that has marked value is buttermilk. With this 
all that is necessary is to pour a little of it in the water where 
the fish are seen and they do the rest, or the finely ground up 
liver can be used. With liver perfect freshness is absolutely 
necessary for the slightest taint and the delicate children die of 
intestinal disturbances. As the fry gain in size and strength, 
they begin to be fingerlings and better able to take the foods 
mentioned when not in quite such a finely mashed up condition. 
Well cooked vermicelli is now greedily snapped up and if noc 
given too often is most excellent. Ordinary cheese in very small 
pieces never reaches the bottom and is swallowed most readily. 
A piece of meat suspended over the stream will in a short time 
give a good supply of maggots and these seem to be devoured 
quickly. Food of any kind should be thrown in small quantities 
so it can be seized and not fall to the bottom. Salt ought to be 
added to the foods now and then. Ordinary milk curd made 
with milk and Fairchild’s pepsin, and squeezed out through a 
piece of gauze, is another food, easily digested by the fry, and 
readily prepared. The yolk of hard-boiled eggs, mixed with a 
httle salt and strained through a fine meshed seive, makes a 
change in djet that is appreciated. Once a week at least, if the 
waters are not stirred up by the rain, they should be stirred up 
by wading about in them, so that for several hours, they become 
markedly muddy. Into the waters salt should be thrown once 
