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mission in our state to plant the fr}^ before the sac was 

 quite absorbed. The result was that we had to plant 

 them before the conditions were right. This year we 

 hatched our fry in spring water. They were all 

 hatched in April, and fed in April, up to the last of 

 April. At that time our streams were full of floods 

 and the snow was not out of them until the first of 

 May, and the result was that we fed our fry a month 

 before planting them, and, in fact, we have not planted 

 them all yet. We have been distributing the last two 

 weeks, and in every instance where we put them out 

 the applicants have been very enthusiastic about the 

 condition in which the fry have been received, and we 

 have greater hopes of the future results of these plans 

 than in cases where we planted previousl}^ with the sac 

 nearly absorbed, and before the streams were in proper 

 condition to receive them. I have come to the conclu- 

 sion that the time to plant them is after the sac is 

 absorbed. 



Dr. James : I think this Society ought to feel 

 thankful if an experiment of this kind has been made 

 to succeed, even if it goes a little in opposition to the 

 ordinarily accepted views and experiments of former 

 observers. It seems to me that it is a very long step 

 in the direction of furnishing a better food to the 

 people at a more moderate rate, comparing the amount 

 of actual nutrition which is obtained in the same 

 length of time, say two or three j^ears, so that looking 

 forward from the standpoint which I take in this mat- 

 ter in the way of protecting the fish, in order that a 

 greater amount of value may be obtained from it for 

 the people, I think it is a valuable experiment, and I 

 am glad to see it has so well succeeded. 



With regard to the carp, I want to say that the 

 thing Mr. Whitaker spoke of occurred to me some 

 years ago, when I owned a farm with two or three 

 ponds upon it. I obtained the carp from the United 



