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Mr. GiLpERT—No; an inch and a half long; fry 
hatched in February. 
Mr. CLtarK—How many have you? 
Mr. GitspeErt—About half a million. So in order to 
raise more, you will require too much natural food; I 
don’t think it could be secured by any natural means. 
Mr. FarrsAanKs—You can do it with fifteen or twenty 
natural ponds, if you have got the space for them, one 
hundred feet in diameter. You can run your water from 
one pond to the other. 
Mr. Gitpert—A man has not the facilities. 
Mr. FarrsanKs—I was going to suggest to Mr. 
Mather, he has one pond there and runs the water from 
that into another. If you have got the room to make 
half a dozen of these ponds you can raise just so much 
more fish in them. And your natural food will take 
care of the fry until they are a year old, probably. 
Mr. Hoxie—In regard to the quality of the fish, 
whether fed on liver or natural food. I will just tell you 
a story. We raise artificial trout and we have also brook 
or wild trout. I have been in the habit every spring of 
sending to a friend a box of trout all cleaned and packed 
in ice, early in the spring, as early as April. Well, the 
gentleman wrote me that he had received the trout and 
they were very fine, but he did not think they were quite 
up to wild trout. Perhaps a couple of months afterwards. 
he and his son were up to my place fishing. I said: 
“Mr. Hazard, I have got a nice joke on you; those trout 
I sent you, I heard that you remarked they were not 
quite up to the brook trout, and I took particular pains. 
to go up to the little lake and bait my hook with worms 
in the old fashioned way, and catch those trout.” He 
was surprised, and said he was going to test it the first 
thing. He always gets a trout dinner when he comes up 
to my place; so he went to my pond, and got some wild 
trout and marked them by snicking the tail. Then he 
went to the other place and got some tame trout. Mrs. 
