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case in hiiiidiHMis of olhcr inslanccs. I have sent them to Crystal 

 lake. Mr. Dole who lives there is a frientl of mine, and I have 

 sent several hundred thousands for two or three years. I always 

 ii^ave him a lot to put in there. That is a small deep lake of 

 ptM'haps three or four thousand acres, very pure water, and very 

 clear, hut theie never has been a young fish seen, and 1 think it 

 is money and work thrown away, and that it is utterly useless to 

 hatch fish and put them in waters unless \ye know to a certainty 

 that the food for the young fry is there. I made still another 

 experiment in tiie same line by going into one of the neighbor- 

 ing lakes near by in Wisc-onsin, and taking a large amount of 

 the spavyn of the wall-eyed pike, I brought those down and 

 hatched millions of them, and put them into Lake Geneva, and 

 there n\jver has been a wall-eyed pike seen there. Evidently 

 there is nothing for those young fish to live upon. They breed 

 and live and thrive where all the conditions are right for them, 

 or in trout lakes where they are indigenous and there is some- 

 thing for the young fish lo live u[)on. You may take the fry and 

 put them into waters where there is no food for the young fish, 

 and you will never have any result. This is a thing we might 

 us well look in the face and understand that it is useless work. 

 Now, seethe work of the Iowa Commission, and they did a great 

 deal, they took a great deal of spawn, salmon trout, 1 don't know 

 wiiere they deposited them — all over Iowa — but 1 have yet to 

 learn that one has appeared. '\hc same way I did with white- 

 lisli. I t(-)ok about an equal number of whitefish as lake-trout, 

 taking the spawn the same time of year and hatched about as 

 many. 1 suppose I puc into Lake (reneva 2,500,000, both of 

 whitefish and lake trout. 1 was determined to make the experi- 

 ment thorough enough to demonstrate that one question, 

 whether these small lakes could be stocked with the better classes 

 of food fishes where they were not indigenous to the waters. I 

 knew that of course bv putting a few thousand in a lake occa^ 

 sionally, or everv year, five to ten or twenty thousand, was not 

 enougli to demonstrate it. They could easily be destroyed ; but 

 by putting encjugh in, piling them in year after year, it would 

 demonstrate it, and I spent ten or twelve thousand dollars in the 

 experiment. 1 think this is a question that is very vital for us 



