104 Thirtieth Annual Meeting 



the tank down on the crust and get to a hole where there was 

 enough current to keep it open and there deposit our fry. I d(> 

 not believe in that method, although I know that the fry just be- 

 fore tlie sac is absorbed are more easily transported than just 

 after. I do not believe in planting the fry just after the sac is 

 absorbed. I agree with Mr. Clark on that point. Therefore we 

 keep our fry until tliey have been fed for six or eight weeks at 

 least, before ])lanting them. 



The President : After the sac is gone ? 



J\Ir. Titeomb : .Vf ter the food sac is gone. Then you have 

 got nice strong little fishes, well able to take care of themselves. 

 The streams have then reached their normal conditions also. We 

 begin planting the latter part of May and we plant, you might 

 say., right through tlie summer. We are shipping all the month 

 of June and into July. There is an intermission through 

 August, and we begin to shi]) our fingerlings in September and 

 carry shipments right through October, but we cannot in Ver- 

 mont, with success, plant fry before the sac is absorbed. 



Mr. Clark : There is no chance for argument between us. I 

 say that if the trout are to be planted as fry before they are fed 

 at all, they must be planted just Ix^fore the sac is absorbed. If 

 given anv artificial nourishment whatever, the longer the fry are 

 fed the Ijetter is their condition for planting. Fry that have 

 been fed only a week or two shoidd not be liberated. Those hav- 

 ing taken food two months or more are decidedly superior for 

 planting, the younger fry having failed to acquire in a week or 

 two sufficient growth and strengtli. 



Mr. Titeomb : I think I misunderstood you in the first place. 



