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As salmon trout will grow to weigh a hundred pounds in 

 Lake Superior, it is probable they may reach twenty in 

 suitable preserves, although the largest we have is not 

 over nine, but he is healthy and is still growing. Salmon 

 trout have been taught to eat trout that died of a natural 

 death, although they at lirst utterly refused such food 

 . they came in the end to accept it willingly. Trout seven 

 inches long have been disposed of in that way. 



Trout and salmon, the latter especially, will get so 

 tame after a time that they will take the food out of your 

 fingers, in fact they will take the fingers too. Their teeth 

 are sharp and make scratches like needles. They may 

 be.taught to jump for their food by holding it a short dis- 

 tance above the water, or may be made to come up and 

 take it out of the pan you are holding. Feed in the 

 middle of the day when the sun is well up, any time 

 from ten to three is good. Make it a general rule to feed 

 slowly and give them as much as they will eat without 

 wasting. 



Although trout and salmon become so fame that they 

 may be made pets, some hybrids in the state hatching 

 works are so shy that they keep as much as possible out 

 of sight, and can hardly be fed. They were a cross of 

 the milt of the salmon with the brook trout eggs, and per- 

 haps knew that they were monstrosities. There is a 

 board covering to the edges of the preserve in which they 

 are kept, and they hide under it and run hither and 

 thither in fright and confusion if any one attempts to 

 get a close view of them. \ 



Salted food has been tried for the feeding of trout, but 

 not witli satisfactory results. They do not seem to like 

 it although it is possible they might be accustomed to 

 it if any important advantage was connected with its 

 use. It, however, ordinarily costs as much or more than 



