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spawning, about thr middle of .Marc.li. wa\- up tlic stream as far 

 as they could go. 



In speaking of the ]jhinting of fish in the s])ring: I do not 

 agree with tlie reader entirely. I think il dej)ends on the ago 

 and size of your fish. If yoit are going to plant fry, plant them 

 before they have been fed at all — in fact plant them just before 

 the sac is gone. If you are going to ]jlant the others, do so after 

 they are partially grown. 



Mr. Titcomb : I do not think it is ])ossil)le today to luive in 

 this society the discussions on this question that ])revaile(l a 

 number of years ago and which caused the Ksubject to be tabooed, 

 you might say. I think the fry men and firigerling men are 

 coming together to a certain extent. Xow, I have watched for 

 the last twelve years the results from both fry and fingerlings, 

 and I am inclined to agree with Mr. Seagle ( I would not say 

 in the spring, just as he does) but, as Mr. Clark says, it depends 

 on the size of the fish ; and what fish would l)e suitalde to ])buit 

 in April in Mr. Seagle "s country could not be planted in Ver- 

 mont, for instance, until July; and we there have l)egun the 

 ])lanting of fry after tliey have been fed two months, to thin 

 them ottt and give us more room ; and we then kept u]) the 

 planting until they were three or four inches long. But the 

 results with the l)rook trout with us seemed to be l:)etter with 

 fingerlings; that is, with these fish that are of the age ]\Ir. Sea- 

 gle speaks about, than with the fry just after the sac is absorbed, 

 or just before. Then you take another variety, the land-locked 

 salmon. They were ])lanted as fry in Vermont a numbci- of 

 times without any results at all; then we raised them to liiigi-r- 

 lings and planted them in September and Octobei' in lakes, and 

 got remarka))le results. So that while it might be [)rofi table to 

 plant brook trout when they are quite young, my experience has 

 been that in introducing fish into lakes, except into streams tliat 

 are full of minnows, the fingei'lisigs are far the best and produce 

 the best results. On the other hand, in our Vermont work, we 

 have planted the lake trout as fry just before the sac is absorbed 

 and before they have been fi'd, with quite as good results as 

 from ])lanting them as fingerlings; and we liave ])lante(| them 

 in a lake where there were no lake trout, with \-ery remarkable 

 results. I think I spoke about il in the last mei'ting, where wo 



