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half long. I mention this merely that the subject may be brought up 

 at the next meeting, by which time he will be able to tell us how those 

 fish have got along, more as a foundation for future investigation, to 

 see how they will get along in a lake, than anything else. My idea was 

 that they ought to be in a stream, but from what my friend says it ; 

 does not seem to be essential, and it is to be hoped that we can prove 

 in time that grayling can be raised in lakes successfully. 



Mr. C. K. Cranston, Pendleton, Ore. : L want to ask Mr. Dean 

 what method of procedure is necessary, or what opportunity or chance 

 there will be of making purchase or exchange of eyed eggs or fry best 

 adapted for transportation to Oregon. We have a number of lakes 

 which I think will be well adapted to stocking with grayling. I have 

 always heard of the fish and if practicable I would like to get some. 



Mr. James Xevin, Madison, Wis. : Several years ago they were 

 planted in the Brule River, and quite a number of them have been 

 caught there. I have not heard for the last couple of years, but I met 

 parties from the Brule three years ago at Madison, and they said there 

 were quite a number of the fish in that river. 



Mr. C. W. Willard, Rhode Island: Ten years ago I obtained 20,000 

 eyed eggs from the station at Montana. They arrived in good con- 

 dition and we hatched out at least 90 per cent of them ; but aftefr 

 hatching we found it utterly impossible to find any kind of food that 

 they would eat. We had the fish in pure artesian water. I believe that 

 had we put the fish upon hatching into the creek water that we might 

 have had some measure of success. As it was t in a very short time 

 our little grayling were all eyes and head and finally died of star- 

 vation. 



Mr. Cranston : What is Mr. Dean's experience on the subject of 

 shipping and the possibilities of our getting eggs or fry and being 

 successful with them in Oregon? 



Mr. Dean : The only place in Montana that eggs have ever been 

 taken that I know of is the upper waters of the Red Rock and within 

 two years at Georgetown Lake. 



Mr. Cranston: Have you any surplus that you could dispose of? 



Mr. Dean : I cannot tell in advance. This season we took about 

 a million eggs. The Government has a field station at the upper waters 

 of the Red Rock and all the grayling distributed anywhere have come 

 from there. All Montana grayling have come from Upper Red Rock. 

 They have to be sent by wagon 45 miles and then shipped by express. 

 Another difficulty in shipping the grayling is that they must be kept 

 very cold. 



Mr. Cranston : A case containing a quarter of a million of eggs 

 would be of comparatively small bulk? 



Mr. Dean: Yes, the eggs run a little larger than whitefish— 700 or 

 800 to the ounce ; and the Government usually only sends about 25,000 

 to 50,000 to an applicant; although a year ago last spring, when I had 

 the Bozeman station, we had a little better year and had two and a 



