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superintendent.s to work the problem out themselves according 

 to conditions of the country. The conditions even in difEerent 

 parts of the same state will vary. 



There was some talk this afternoon when the specimens were 

 being distributed in regard to what was fry and what were finger- 

 lings. I have brought some specimens here. The age is not 

 given for Bome of them, and Mr. Clark, of Northville, thought 

 that those that I called fry were pretty large for fry, and I would 

 like to exhibit these specimens here as showing what we ship as 

 fry and what we ship as fingerlings. Of one size which I show 

 you here we shipped this season 636,000. 



(Mr. Lydell here exhibited a specimen somewhat less than an 

 inch in length). 



Mr. Titcomb : How do you count them ? 



Mr. Lydell : Two thousand or whatever we ship in a can 

 and those are estimated, and these are what we ship as finger^ 

 lings, Ijoth the large and small-mouth. 



( Exhibiting the same specimen refeiTed to ) . 



We ship lots larger and some smaller. 



President: I would like to ask Mr. Clark wliat he calls 

 those ? 



Mr. Clark : I do not call them fry. 



Mr. Lydell: Perhaps we have 15,000 more of that kind to 

 ship. What we ought to get at is where we are going to estab- 

 lish the fry and where the fingerlings. We ought to determine 

 w^hat to call them. 



Mr. Leary : Li your paper of last year you described fry as 

 those just risen from the nest, and mentioned l)al)y fingerlings 

 three-quarters of an inch long to an inch long. 



Mr. Lvdell: Those fry are the small-month bass, luit tliesT 

 are the large-moutli. 1 did not bring any of the small-mouth 

 fry along this year, because I had tbem at the society meeting 

 last year. You are correct about the statement. 



Mr. Titcomb : Those are the smallest fry you ship ? 



Mr. Lydell : Yes, of the large-mouth fry. 



Mr. Clark : I cannot conceive of the idea of any kind of lisli, 

 ^\-hether bass, trout or what it be, being planted and calU'd a 

 fry when it is a full-fledged fish. Xow. I have never made a busi- 

 ness of hatching and planting bass. I have examined some little 



