THE STEW. 



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without a moment's delay. With the assistance 

 of the keepers and some labourers at work in an 

 adjacent meadow, this did not take many 

 minutes, and yet it was not at all too soon. 

 Seventy-six were dead and stiff, and after a 

 considerable amount of care and nursing we 

 managed to keep all the rest alive, except 

 twenty-five, so that 101 out of iooo succumbed. 

 Another half hour would have killed every 

 one of the fish, and caused a serious loss, 

 brought about not by any want of organisation 

 or forethought, but by the accidental coin- 

 cidence of the unseasonably hot weather and 

 the neglect of the livery-stable keeper to send 

 a conveyance and horses fit for the work. It is 

 only fair to add that the late Mr. Andrews 

 himself wrote the next day to the effect that 

 he intended to send another ioo yearlings to 

 make up the deficiency, an intention which was 

 duly carried out a few days later. Four 

 hundred of the largest were turned into the 

 river, and the remaining six hundred left in the 

 stew. 



The question of feeding, and of the nature of Nature of 

 the food to be given to the yearlings in the stew, h °° gs _ or year " 

 is of the greatest importance, and a primary 

 factor in determining the rate of their growth 

 during the period of their detention under these 

 artificial conditions. Fish breeders are in the 



