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thing there. Now, if we should undertake to force it, 
we probably would not get as good results. 
But I am speaking not of the little fish places in 
Europe, where they turn out 5,000 in the course of the 
year and think they are doing well. Suppose you want 
to turn out a half million a year. It is going to facili- 
tate you to get food for those fish when you want it by 
the pound, or ten, or twenty, or fifty pounds of natural 
food. I don’t know how to get it, and I don’t think 
that any man does. 
Mr. GriLtBErtT—I would like to say while we are on 
this subject, that where the food of trout can be pur- 
chased for a cent a pound, it is hardly worth while for a 
man to spend the time, or even employ labor to get 
the natural food. It will cost more than it will to 
buy it. 
Mr. Farrsanks—Natural food makes a great deal 
better fish. 
Mr. Gi_BERtT—That is a question on which there are 
many differences of opinion. We had a legislative 
committee down to my place and we gave them a trout 
dinner, and they were all artificially fed trout. One of 
the gentlemen of the committee afterwards was pre- 
sented with some natural fed trout. He said a few days 
afterwards that he preferred artificially fed trout. So 
there is a variety of opinions about that. 
But in regard to food, I am feeding now about a 
thousand pounds of trout a week, my young fry of last 
season’s hatching.. We begin to feed in April, about fifty 
pounds of liver a day. To get natural food to supply 
that demand would cost a great deal more. 
Mr. CLAarK—You are feeding the fry ? 
Mr. GILBERT—Yes, the young fry. 
Mr. CLark—That is, year old? 
Mr. GitpertT—No, the young fry of last winter's 
hatching. 
Mr. CLarK—A year old last spring ? 
