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carry out the same routine, namely, going down to the larger 

 bodies of water to get a larger amount of food. 



Mr. Hallock: : Why do not these same habits and conditions 

 apply to these different streams on Long Island ? 



Mr. WiLMOT : I cannot tell yon. 



The Prfsident : They do. I can confirm Mr. Wilmot in 

 that. It is a matter which presented itself to my mind, and I 

 wrote a book on the subject some twelve or fourteen years ago. 

 It is the same opinion that Mr. Wilmot has expressed here. 

 You ask why do not all the trout go to the sea ? Simply because 

 they do not want to. Some are migratory in their notions and 

 some are not. I have a pond on Long Island, and some of my 

 trout go to the sea and a great many do not. I have a fish-way, 

 and every trout can leave my pond and go to the sea ; but they 

 do not do it. Some do. Last year there were as beautiful sea- 

 trout caught below my pond as anywhere on Long Island. 



Mr. Hallock : Those fish were caught in salt water ? 



The President : Yes, sir. We used to catch trout on the 

 north side, in the salt water where they were coming right in 

 from the salt water, bright, beautiful trout, but not quite so 

 handsome as the sea-trout. I have followed the sea-trout right 

 up the river. You speak of the Saginaw River, catching them 

 at the mouth ; and you catch them later when they have moved 

 up ; and you go away up in the head- waters and find them there. 

 The first time I went with Mr. Witcher, which was a great many 

 years ago, I visited the Nouvelle River and the sea-trout w T ere 

 very abundant. We struck the sea-trout at the mouth of that 

 river, and we took them along up with us, and we found too a 

 mixture of the sea-trout and the other trout ; we found them in 

 all conditions, changing from one to the other. We would go 

 to a pool and catch the brilliant, bright sea-trout, and in the 

 same pool we would catch the older fish that were darker, and 



