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flood, as all the springs rise on my grounds. The same 
applies to the other places which I use as fish farms. 
. 4and 5. I cannot tell how much liver and horse flesh is 
given to the yearling fish, but as natural food, viz., Gam- 
marus pulex, Limnea and larve of all water insects are 
present in great quantities, I can safely say the artificial 
food given to the fry is very, very small, and in two out 
of the three of my sets of ponds no artificial food whatever 
is given to the fish. We cultivate the natural food to a 
large extent, leaving one or more ponds every year for the 
purpose, and it is not an uncommon thing for us to trans- 
fer 150 gallons of Gammarus pulex and 20 bushels of 
Limnea from one pond to another. 
6. We get yearling fish of fario, levenensis, fontinalis 
and grayling from 4in. up to8 and 10in. in length in 10 to 
11 months, and there is very little difference in size of the 
four varieties above named. I do not care for the S. ¢7v- 
deus, and have only had a few which were given me by Sir 
Jas. Maitland some four or five years ago. I need hardly 
say that the best yearlings are from fry planted in Janu- 
ary and February, and the smaller yearlings are from fry 
planted later. Our fish begin to spawn late in October, and 
I have taken eggs as late as March 20, but I place less 
“value on these late ova. 
7. Weight of 5 in. yearling is about 350 grains, sometimes 
450 grains, and this will apply to farto, levenensis and 
fontinalis, but grayling are a little lighter, being a 
slighter made fish. We include levenensis in the fario 
variety. 
American fontinalis do well with me, reaching a large 
size, and I have breeders of this kind of 4and5lbs. Many 
of my two-year-old fish weigh 1} lbs. and 2 lbs. in the see- 
ond year, but I do not supply fish as two-year-olds over 
12in. Jam, dear sir, yours very truly, 
(Signed) THos. ANDREWS. 
It must be evident, I think, to every progressive fisheul- 
