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g'ettinii^ away. Now, to stock new waters which are not trout 

 streams proper, I tliink the way is to put the fish in from four 

 months to six months, up to a year old ; then you have a good 

 stout healthy fish that has got something to live upon until it 

 can accustom itself to the new class of food. 



Mr. To.MLiN — I would like to ask Mr. Clark to come back to 

 the subject which Mr. Fairbank started on — is it possible to 

 stock waters which are not indigenous to salmon or trout, witli 

 trout or salmon, and make it a success ? 



Mr. Ci-.ARK.— Certainly it is possible, because it has been 

 (lone. 



Mr. M.ATHKR. — In regard to this matter which Mr. Tomlin 

 has just brcnight up, and the question which he asks Mr. Clark 

 about stocking with fish which are not indigenous to the water, 

 I will sav that within the past few years this lake trout, whose 

 natural habitat ib the great lakes and the small lakes of New 

 York, has been introduced into Virginia. Col. McDonald has 

 had success with them at VVytheville, and all of us who know 

 anything about the distribution of this fish, know that our lake 

 or salmon trout, never existed in Virginia in a state of nature. 

 I am now hatching ior Prcjfessor Baird one hundred and fifty 

 thousand of these lake trout, which he has requested me to keep 

 on Long Island for four or five months, in accordance with Mr. 

 Clark's theory, and then distribute according to his order in 

 the fall, and he tells me that Col. McDonald says that these lake 

 trout will bear warmer w-aters than any of our salmon. That 

 is not my experience. I have always believed them to be the 

 most delicate in regard to temperature of any of our fishes, and 

 have believed they require colder water ; at the same time I am 

 trying it, I am anxious to see if they will live in our warm 

 waters on Long Island. Col. McDonald has raised them in 

 Virginia, where there is not much difference in temperature. 



Mr. Clark. — I have one hundred and fifty tliousand that w'e 

 are keeping for the United States Commission to-day, from the 

 same lot that Mr. .Mather speaks about. Mr. Mather's one hun- 

 dred and fifty thousand came from Northville. That is the pur- 



