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Show have a much higher survival rate -when they are planted into the state's waters. This results from the healthier fish produced on the new feeds. The pellets, now produced in various sizes to suit the diet of all sizes of fish, are purchased from several commercial manufacturing manu-facturing them. They contain concentrated proteins, pro-teins, bone, fish, and cottonseed meal, vitamins, chemicals and other ingredients to form a balanced bal-anced diet. o FISH AND GAME IIIGHUGHTC Utah's twelve state hatcheries now are producing larger, healthier heal-thier trout in less time with less labor than ever before, the department de-partment of fish and game said. Several of the hatcheries will produce two crops of legals each year compared to the one crop output of former years. The department said credit for this major forward 'stride in fishery fish-ery production is due to the use of dry feeds that now make up 95 per cent of the hatchery fish diet at all the state plants. The new feeds, a balanced diet in tha form of pellets, were first used by the department on an experimental basis several years ago. Various formulas were tested test-ed in the hatcheries until those currently in use were finally adopted ad-opted about a year ago. They have now been worked into the feeding program at each hatchery. hatch-ery. The old diets of raw meat now appear to be a thing of the past. And this probably occurred none too soon, since the farm tractor of today is still rapidly replacing old dobbin of yesteryear. Advantages of the new feeds are many, other than the oro-duction oro-duction of more and healthier fish. They include ease of handling, hand-ling, storage without the use of refrigeration as with meat, better sanitation, and consistency of quality. Cost of the dry feed is comparable com-parable to the various meats and other products used in the past. Cost per pound of game fish produced pro-duced at the hatcheries is less, based upon savings made in the use of the dry feeds and the increased in-creased production in pounds of fish from the same amounts of food fed the fish. Both the legals and the small-; er trout are now believed to |