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cleaning out our grayling. So far as the two fish are concerned, 

 I say if we can't have but one, let us have the trout. I have 

 fislied for them both carefully; I have waded up to my waist 

 when I have been so blinded with mosquito and fly bites, that I 

 have scarcely been able to see, yet I have kept on fishing, and 

 my conscience never accused me of having caught them in large 

 numbers. I don't think I ever caught over twenty at a time. 

 Mr. Whitaker doesn't make any difference in his paper about 

 the appearance of the grayling. You take the grayling found in 

 the Sturgeon and Pigeon, and flowing through into the Cheboy- 

 gan, you will find them very different in appearance from those 

 on the west side of Michigan. You take the grayling found in 

 Pine River flowing into the Manistee, and the Manistee itself, 

 and compare them with rivers flowing into Lake Huron, and 

 the western grayling are by far the smallest. The eastern 

 trout, those in Pigeon River and Sturgeon River, sometimes 

 weigh three pounds, whereas on the other side we have never 

 got them weighing more than a pound and a half. 



Mr. Mather. — Trout and grayling have lived together in tlie 

 streams of England and Germany for centuries. The trout 

 were the brown trout, however, iS*. Fario, and not our American 

 trout or charr, S. fontinalis, but 1 cannot think the latter more 

 predaceous than the former Nor do I understand why certain 

 grayling streams of Michigan were destitute of trout, and were 

 full of grayling, because the lakes into which these streams 

 empty contain trout which go into neighboring brooks. If any 

 one can account for this we would like to hear him. If there 

 are no further remarks, however, it might be well for us to ad- 

 journ. 



On motion, duly seconded, the Convention here adjourned to 

 attend the Citrus Fair at Battery D Armory, to meet again at 

 tliree o'clock p. m. 



