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they eat less in cold weather than in warm, and grow in pro- 

 portion. I have 1100 parent trout caught with a hook in the 

 streams about. My largest pond contains sixty-one square 

 rods ; water fourteen feet deep. Four hundred of these trout 

 were put in last summer, four hundred one year ago, and 

 about four hundred two years ago. About fifty have been 

 taken out for table use, and about the same number have 

 died from various causes. They were from one to two years 

 old when 'placed in the pond, so that they now range from 

 two to five years old. A few are older. I fed them the 

 livers, &c., from two beeves a week during the last summer. 

 This furnished food so abundantly that they paid but little 

 attention to flies or other insects. It cost me about seven 

 dollars for food last year. The fish are very tame, coming 

 regularly for their food ; they take it from a spoon, or hand, 

 and throw themselves clear out of the water, by the hundred, 

 in their eagerness for it. 



GROWTH. 



The trout that hatched one year ago now, are from four to 

 seven inches long, and are heavy compared with those in 

 the streams in a wild state. Those two years old are from 

 seven to nine inches ; three years, from nine to eleven inches ; 

 four years, from eleven to thirteen inches ; and five years, 

 from thirteen to fifteen inches long. Trout four years old 

 will average one pound in weight. The trout in my pond 

 will weigh from one quarter of a pound to two pounds each. 

 With pure, cold water, and plenty of good, fresh food daily, 

 trout will grow rapidly, and may attain a pound's weight in 

 three years. Still, those of the same age vary much in size. 

 There are Tom Thumbs and LaVinia Warrens, as well as 

 Daniel Lamberts and Hannah Grouses, in this trout family, 

 as well as in the human family. 



TRANSPOETATION. 



One year old trout may be carried a long distance in wa- 



