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tisli occur, the Indians make a special business of catching 

 them in weirs and traps each autumn." 



Associates. — In Kootanie Lake, according to Dr. Daw- 

 son, "there is also a larger lish, dilTerent from the lake 

 trout," which he considers a land-locked variety of the 

 spring salmon {0 ncorhynchus chouicJia). On this point I 

 have been informed by Captain Bendire that occasionally, 

 in great freshets, the obstructions on Kootanie River are 

 passed by salmon from the sea, and these become land- 

 locked when the floods subside. 



Washington, D. C , May 25th, 1891. 



TRANSPLANTLNG FISH. 



No branch of fish culture, in my opinion, deserves more 

 careful attention and study than transplanting, which is 

 now being so successfully conducted by the U. S. Fish 

 Commission, under the able management of Dr. S. P. Bart- 

 lett. 



Much valuable time and considerable supis of money 

 have been wasted because of a want of knowledge in this 

 work. I have suffered my share of the discomfiture in this 

 direction — therefore this paper. 



Chagrin River, on which my home. Chagrin Falls, O., is 

 situated, has two branches of about equal size, each con- 

 taining clear water, coming chiefly from springs running 

 from the conglomerate sandstone of the vicinity. On each 

 branch, about a mile above the forks, is a fall sufficiently 

 high to prevent fish from ascending. Eight years ago the 

 north branch was stocked with less than 100 small-mouth 

 black bass fry, taken from the stream below the falls. 

 The south branch was stocked the same year with 3,000 



