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Show SOMETHING MORE ABOUT THE FEEDING OF FISH Editor Tribune While the article In last Sunday's edition on feeding fish diseased dis-eased meat Is true enough, the reporter did not catch the most objectionable part of the filth of the tlsh business as conducted con-ducted In some places. Many ponds (about 100x4x3 foot in dimension and fed by ono three-inch flowing well) contain con-tain from 10,000 to 30.000 trout, fed. In some cases, on the uncooked lungs from animals killed at the slaughter houses and hold in warm weather for four or ll vo days. The death rate among the llsh under theso conditions is very high and the dead llsh are allowed to decay in the ponds. Tho filthy feed, the high death rate, and the great number of flsh crowded into the ponds mnko tho overflow very til thy. All this filthy water Is discharged into tho irrigation ditches, brooks or creeks, to which stoCk must so to drink. If the streams wore not so befouled by private llsh ponds, perhaps fewer cattle would bo condemned. Feeding diseased cows back to tho llsh in private ponds may be onlv another way of "giving the devil his due." |