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Long Island before Christmas, and the record shows that 
the taking of food was influenced not only by the tem- 
perature of the water dropping below 4o degrees Fahr., 
but also by the temperature of the air and the atmos- 
pheric conditions. Therefore I am disposed to take this, 
the last quarter, as a fair estimate of the consumption of 
food during the year, for we started in with 25,000 fry 
which fed along from March to nearly the last of May, 
when the mortality began, the weaker ones died, and 
there is a great waste of food when so finely chopped as 
it is necessary to be for the “babies.” 
Horse meat has been spoken of and a digression may 
be pardoned to say that during my twenty-four years’ life 
as a fishculturist, the question of the best and cheapest 
food for trout has been the leading one. Beginning ° 
with hen’s eggs, which is the worst of all, the usual beef’s 
liver, lights (lungs), heart, maggots, mosquito-larve, 
soft clams, mya asenarza, and salt water mussels, mytzlus 
edulis, have been tried until, in November last, a man 
who kills wornout horses for their hides, bones and dog- 
meat, was found who delivers us clean, sound muscle, 
' free from bone, of horse, mule, or cow that died in calv- 
ing. at the uniform price of four cents per pound at the 
station, and it is the best food for trout, and the cheap- 
est that we have found. At this station beef livers from 
New York averaged, with express charges, seven cents 
per pound, z¢., they cost fifty cents each and averaged 
ten pounds apiece, and the freight on the box cost forty 
cents whether containing one or three, and the supply 
was uncertain. 
To resume: During the quarter mentioned we fed 
16,000 trout, as follows: 
January, . ; . 328% lbs. 
February, : a 451) Ao 
March, ; vole Naveigi.” es 

1,140% 
