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Mr. Oherfcldor: As far as llic L'nilcd Stales Coinmission is 

 concerned, I presume it is all right to deliver fry, but when the 

 people who pay for this wurk are sent the fry they don't think 

 they are getting any fish. The Xel)raska ImsIi Connnission are 

 trying to deliver pike six niontlis old; 1 think the [)eople through- 

 out the State would be better satisfied with the delivery of such 

 fish to them than the fry. They might not from the standpoint 

 of the United States Conuuission. 1 know the conuuisisoner of 

 Wyoming told me that they sent trout last year in cans, saying 

 "there is 5,000 trout in a can," but those who received them said 

 it was the same okl fish story; we counted them and found there 

 were but 850. x-\fter tiiis they say we want more yearlings and 

 no more fry. 



Mr. Whitaker: I don't suppose there is any wiay by which 

 you can guard against misrepresentation as to the number of fish 

 that are put in cans. I think it is poor policy on the part of a 

 board, and I think they will find that misrepresentations of that 

 kind nuist ultimately come back to them injuriously. It is not 

 policy, if you want to put in on the ground of policy. It is not 

 honesty, if you put it on the groimd of honesty. 



So far as not getting results from the distribution of the fry 

 is concerned, that may be as stated in the State of which the 

 gentleman speaks, but it is not so in 2\Iichigan. The great and 

 successful work of stocking there has come solely from ])lants of 

 hy. There is this to be said, in my opinion, that notwithstanding 

 the fact that the planting of fingerling and yearling fish has been 

 advocated in this country l)y some for ten or fifteen years, the 

 planting of fingerling fish has not made perceptible headway any- 

 where and the large work of distribution is still being done with 

 fry. 



Mr. Clark: And always will be. 



Mr. O'Brien: I don't wish to be understood as advocating 

 the planting of fingerling or yearling fish. I just morcl\- nien- 

 »tioned the fact that we are rearing our bass to an age of six 

 months. It is not done because we thought that fingerlings or 

 yearlings were more successful, it was more because we thought 

 we could transport them with greater safety at the age of six 

 months. That is the reason I should put out the bass in the fall. 

 We have hot weather in June and July, and we are not as well 

 fixed to carr\f fish as the Ignited States Fish Commission. 



Mr. Clark: I don't wish to proU)ng this discussion, but 1 

 want the members of this society to understand the point. I 



