230 DOMESTICATED TROUT. 



Brighton and Cambridge in Massachusetts, where it 

 can be bought so low, that, with a hundred miles' ex- 

 press-charges added, it will not cost over the average 

 price in the country of three cents a pound. 



This food is nutritious. The plucks of animals, be- 

 ing solid fresh meat, are the most nutritious food in 

 the world for trout, and cannot be objectionable in 

 this respect. This food, I should say, then, should 

 form the chief reliance of the trout-grower. 



To prepare it for the fish, run it raw through a 

 common sausage-grinder, and it is then ready to feed 

 to them. 



Various other things can be used for food, and the 

 best among these are : — 



1. Other kinds of meat. 



2. Live minnows. 



3. Fish-flesh ground up. 



4. Sour-milk curd. 



5. Worms and insects. 



1. Other kinds of meat. Trout, being carnivorous, 

 will always thrive on meat. Therefore, any kind of 

 meat, whether raw or boiled, which is cheap enough 

 and convenient enough, makes suitable food for them. 

 Horse-flesh,* young calves, and scant sheep would an- 

 swer for trout-food, and are also cheap. 



2. Live minnows. These unquestionably form a 

 very desirable article of food for trout, and should be 

 given them when they can be afforded. They are natu- 

 ral food, and at the same time furnish a wholesome 

 change from the usual meat diet. In some favorable 



* Paris lived on horse-flesh ; why should not trout ? 



