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don't care to bring in the yearling question, but the point is, that 

 the black bass is a fish that should not be held and reared, because 

 it is not necessary; because at the end of a week or two week^s 

 they are just as mature as they ever will be. 



Mr. Bower: You mean in appearance. 



Mr. Clark: Yes, just as well able to take care of themselves 

 as they will be in a year. 



Mr. Oberf elder: How about pike? Do you think a pike a 

 week old is as good as one six months old? 



Mr. Clark: I have had no experience in the rearing of pike. 



Mr! Peabody: I understand you are in favor of fingerlings 

 and yearlings as to trout. 



Mr. Clark: I will say I stand just where I did ten or fifteen 

 years ago. In answer to what Mr. Whitaker said and he perhaps 

 didn't wish to be understood just exactly as it sounded, that the 

 yearling theory has not progressed, 1 wish to say that arises from 

 the fact we cannot raise enough. We can only keep two or 

 three hundred thousand at any station. There is no station in 

 the country large enough to raise a million yearlings. The point 

 is to raise wliat you can, and as to the balance distribute fry. 



Mr. Nevin: Do you mean that in relation to lake trout? 



Mr. Clark: Yes, I do. 



Mr. Peabody: I am glad to hear you say that. Last winter 

 I talked with the New York people and they are strongly in 

 favor of fingerlings. 



Mr. Whitaker: There is no probability, so far as the results 

 are concerned, if you will watch them for the next ten years, that 

 _\ou will find any great increase in their output of fingerling trout. 

 It is impossible, with the multitude of streams we have, taking 

 the great comparative cost of planting fingerlings, to stock the 

 streams of this country with fingerlings. 



Mr. .Stranahan then read his paper, which follows : 



THE MICROSCOPE AS PRACTICALLY APPLIED TO 

 FISH CULTURE. 



Prefatory to this paper the writer would say that no one with 

 ordinary intelligence should hesitate to make use of the micro- 

 scope in fish culture because of any fear that he may not be able 

 to master it. 



