| Show how to grow troug trong to a large size trout show t heir their keeping as well as aa any other creature a and nd more wore than most we have seen been a trout that WAS reasonably believed to be but two baars old thab that weighed a pound and we have seen one at the same age that barely turned the scale at half an ail ounce the baiger had been living in a warm warin stream which swarmed with blood sulo silo suckers kers of which there is no more growing food in tho world for trout the other happ happened eved to be confined in a small smail enclosure of very cold water hl at most destitute of food thee the e instances show what a difference dlf dif different conditions will make in the growth of a trout you can grow them at an almost incredible rate or you can dwarf them to an almost diminutiveness ti veness it if you wish to dwarf trout keep them in cold hiu riu uless water in close confinement and with little food and aud you will do it it you yoa want to grow them fast and large observe the following directions 1 give them plenty of water of two similar lots of trout confined iu in the same amount of space and kept on the rame rama amount of food those which have the largest supply of water will grow the best 2 give the ii plenty of food trout will grow in exact proportion to th the e food which Is ia given them becude their growth depends on so many other modi modifying dying circumstances but you may be sure of this under any circumstances that the more you fee feed 4 I 1 them and the more often up to the tae limit of their capacity for the botter better they will erow crow 3 keep them where the water waler warms up in the summer say to 65 or nearly dearly 70 degrees Fahren fahrenheit belt helt you cannot grow trout fast or larce lare in very cold water feed food them nud aud care for them the tho best you can they must nevertheless have comparatively warrn warm water aud bud in such water with plenty of food range iange and space their rate of growth is ia simply wonderful 4 give them range if you want to grow trout very largo you must give them range we say bay a ay if you want to grow them very large range Is ia not necessary by any means to the average growth of trout for they will grow to a vely good siz blzy i in small places and it is also generally incompatible with trout growing as aa a business to give them great range but if you want to raise the very largest trout you must give them the very largest range trout will not grow beyond a certain size in confinement they will stop or nearly stop atop growing ir if confined conn conf nemi leml when they b have havo ave avo reached a certain limit range also in influences fluen ces the rate of growt growth h large ponds ponda grow trout faster as ag a rule than binal binai sinal ponds nonda put ten trout into a pool three feet square and ten others in a pond three rods square aud bud those in the pond will grow very much faster than those in the pool on the same food it if the pond had bad acres in it they would have grown faster yet 5 give them plenty of space apace I 1 mean menn by space the actual cubic amount of room to each fish in a pond this of course la is not synonymous synonym ous oui s wilh range As for fu stance bustance lusta fuata uce nce a thousand head bead of eattle eattie in a pasture would have as aa much ten bead but ten bead coufou ed in ia it alone would have each a hundred times the space space is something which cannot be aff corded by trout growers generally but lut it ii 13 i i necessary to the very large aud and rapid growth or of trout put 1000 trout in a pond twenty feet square and ten trout in another pond of the same size and keep keel both lots on the same food and the same water supply and you will be astonished to see how bow much the rate 0 of f growth of the larger lot exceeds that of the smaller lot much space apace is not necessary to keep trout alive in antl anil doing well but hut it is nevertheless indis india pens pen alile ailie to very large growth round hound tubie tabie |
