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fry! The young shrimp is just the size for a hungry 
trout seven weeks old, and I have often brought the 
Gammarus up from my ponds to the hatchery and fed 
them there. There are, of course, other insects which are 
very suitable for the young fish, and I cultivate largely 
the ‘alder fly,’ whose eggs are to be found on the rushes. 
and grass hanging over the streams or ponds in May and 
June in England. I collect these eggs and hatch them 
out, turning the larvee into the water. I need hardly tell 
you that they are almost microscopic, and just the thing for 
the young fish. Then there is the ‘grannom fly,’ which I 
cultivate by bringing home the eggs which are found in 
bunches, attached to rushes, bits of stick, grass and 
woodwork in the rivers. To-day I had a can of gran- 
nom eggs sent up, and I should think there is a bushel 
basketful of these. They will be sent down to my ponds 
on Monday and placed just as they are in among weeds. 
and rushes and will hatch in due time. The May-fly we 
can and do introduce in the same way, but until last sea- 
son they were put into a pond where there were about 
15,000 yearlings, and they stood but little chance to in- 
crease. Last season the eggs of the May-fly had a place 
devoted to them, where there were no fish, and we have 
found quantities of larve already. We also cultivate 
the Lzmnzade (snails), and the young of these make cap- 
ital food for my fish of all ages. We feed the snails and 
shrimps on liver and horseflesh, and where my man 
washes his meat sieve the snails have collected in heaps. 
and devour all that is washed off the sieves My experi- 
ence has taught me that one yearling fish is worth a 
hundred or a thousand fry for stocking purposes, yet 
I do not deny that a great many fish can be saved in the 
fry stage by artificial feeding. I get fewer fish, perhaps 
(by feeding natural food), but I get monsters of 6, 7, 8 
and gin. in a year, and my yearlings fetch three times. 
the price of some other pisciculturists. Public opinion 
also in England is in favor of yearling or two-year old 
