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want Lo be on the ground on the first of March, and you may not 

 get any eggs until the isth of April. I am speaking of hatching 

 in seventeen to twenty-five days, that is, in water that is fifty to 

 fifty-eight degrees. 



Mr. Fairbank. — The water in those streams would be cooler 

 at that time. 



Mr. Clark. — Yes, the water is cooler, and I think that the 

 driving of logs is cleaning the grayling streams out of those fish 

 in the State of Michigan. I think it is more from that cause 

 than it from any other, either fish or fisherman. 



Mr. ToMLiN. — Even granting what Mr. Clark says, notwith- 

 standing the stirvival of the fittest, the grayling is being extin- 

 guished. In my mind there is no question about it. You take 

 Sweden, Norway, Japan, Germany, Italy, France and England 

 and you will find the trout and grayling side by side. You put 

 the trout into any stream where the grayling is and in a little 

 while the trout will clean them out. I have fished the streams 

 that Mr. Whitaker has spoken of in his paper. Years ago I 

 fished the Jordan, Pine River, the Pigeon, and the Sturgeon, 

 and later years the Muskegon River. When I first went to the 

 Jordan, way back in i860, there used to be a considerable num- 

 ber of grayling. I got to paying frequent visits to Michigan, 

 and I love it as much as my own State for its beauty. I found 

 out that the history of the trout was a far more recent one than 

 I had supposed. I had always imagined that trout was to be 

 found in certain streams. There was an old man on the Jordan, 

 long enough before Pine River was cleared out, who well re- 

 members the coming in of the trout. He says when he first 

 went there to fish — he was an old Metliodist itinerant preacher 

 I think — he used to catch one trout perhaps to ten graylings ; 

 in five years from that time they were equal. Well now, we 

 know from the structural appearance of the fish, that the gray- 

 ling doesn't stand the shadow of a chance beside our trout. You 

 take for instance a body of water and put in trout and small 

 black bass, and the trout will clean the bass out. They will 

 chew him up, eat his tail and fins off, and by and by there isn't 

 a bass there at all. This is the way the American tn>ut are 



