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time getting the lion's share of everything. The effect, 

 of course, is to increase the contrast more and more 

 every day. This effect can, however, be offset, in some 

 degree, by taking pains to give better care and feed 

 to the lower ones, and this should always be done. 

 Indeed, by feeding the lower ones more than usual, 

 and neglecting the upper ones, you can bring them 

 somewhat together in point of locality, though never 

 in point of size. I think that it is also a good way 

 to take out all the lower division, and put them in an 

 enclosure by themselves. They will never be as large 

 fish as the others, but they will then, at any rate, be 

 freed from the tyranny of the larger ones, and will im- 

 prove correspondingly. 



You may notice, too, that sometimes some of the 

 lower young fry get against the screens, and perhaps 

 die from the effect of it. There is no need whatever of 

 this. If they get against the screens, it is because 

 they are weak, and you may know that their weakness 

 has come either from their being too much crowded, 

 too little fed, or from being actually sick. The remedy 

 for the first and second is obvious ; and the third case 

 ought not to have occurred ; but in all three cases 

 more feeding will bring them up. They are weak, and 

 need to be fed to be made strong again. Therefore, 

 when the little creatures get against the screens, or 

 show a tendency that way, feed them more, and con- 

 tinue doing so till they come up strong again. Do 

 not turn down the water, as is sometimes done, when 

 they are weak and get against the screens, for this 

 only makes them weaker ; but keep the water on, un- 



