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Show hatchery owners would buy dead animals ani-mals for fish food, Mr. Hansen called up one of the owners over the telephone. tele-phone. The fish man evidently did not know whom he was talking to, and the following conversation took place: "Hello! What vlll you gio me for a dead cow?"" ' "How long-has iho been dead?" "Oh, alKJilT two days." "Well. I would rather have had her when she was. first killed." "How about a dead horso?" "I can use ono fine." "How much will you give me?" "Ill give you $150." "Nothing dolnfj" Mr. Hansen saya that he will make it a point to 8ee,that the fish are given giv-en only the best food. FOOD INSPECTOR TO PROTECT UTAH FISH. Salt Lake, March 15 Persons living liv-ing in the neighborhood of the private fish hatcheries rear Murray have complained to the state dairy and food department (hat some of the fish handled at these places are diseased, being affected with a son of fungus growth. Willard Hansen, state dairy and food commissioner, believes this disease of the fish is canned from the uso of bad food, and he will continue con-tinue a rigid investigation of all tho hatcheries and take some of the fish to the htato chemict for examination. Mr. Hansen visited the hatcheries at Murray Saturday, and while he found the state institution in llrst-clas3 llrst-clas3 shape, he also discovered, he says, that some of the worst food imaginable was being fed to fish In the private ponds. Albert Longhurst, a private hatchery hatch-ery owner, admitted that he had been feeding to the fish the flesh of nine cowg which had been condemned for tuberculosis. Johnson & Carlson sal.l that old horses had been fed to fish at their hatchery'. They contend that the flesh was In good condition, and that the food is not harmful. To find out whether the private |