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Show Food Supply Assured Fish in Hatcheries Visitors to the Lakeside park at Fort Wayne, Ind., might with reason be led to believe that the colored floodlights about the water had been installed to add to the natural beauty beau-ty of the park, but there is more to tiie story. The underlying motive for the lights is that In the five lagoons of the lake are Bsh of many kinds and sizes, for the lake is used as a hatchery by locnl fishermen. Fish must be fed, and they prefer Insects. But a hatchery, with its concentrated population, needs nn extra abundance of Insects above and iu the water If all the finny denizens are to have their appetites appeased. And hence the lights to lure the Insects to their destruction. About these lamps fountains foun-tains have been Installed and the two make nn effective combination for the automatic feeding of the fish populating pop-ulating the lake. Insects are lured by the light and dashing Into the stream of water are carried down to the fish. The scheme works very successfully and incidentally rids the vicinity of a goodly number of annoying annoy-ing pests. |