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portion settle down, and then as they developed a little they 

 would take all the food which we naturally give to the young" 

 trout fry and strained it, and all of our grayling have been fed 

 entirely on liver; you might say, they have had no artificial food 

 because all of the troughs in which the grayling are kept are 

 below the troughs in which we have the trout fry. The water 

 passes through the trout box before it reaches the grayling. I 

 think the grayling is the most rapid grower of anv fish I have 

 ever had in the hatchery. They have trebled in size since we 

 got them in Alay. Our experience last season wasn't successful 

 because we got our eggs before they learned how to pack them 

 properly; we only hatched a few, but those fish in the middle 

 of the summer were larger than our trout fry, which were sev- 

 eral months older. We have some yearlings and these fry. I 

 think though some of them have disappeared inside of the others 

 for their numbers have decreased- — they have gone somewhere. 



Are there any further remarks on the grayling? 



Mr. O'Malley: I had an opportunity while in Leadville of 

 seeing the grayling carried there and attempted to be reared in 

 that cold water. When I left there the grayling were about a 

 year old, and at that time they were hardly an inch long, and I 

 think according to that it would tend to show that they do better 

 in hatcheries having warmer water. They didn't seem to feed. 



Mr. Bryant : I want to ask the Michigan gentlemen about 

 their living in the water with other fish, do they monopolize the 

 stream? 



Islv. Willard : I think I can answer that question. I spent 

 the summer of '97 fishing for trout and grayling in Montana, and 

 I found both species in the same water, although I found the 

 grayling more abundant in slow, sluggish parts of the stream 

 where the water was shallower, even where the water must have 

 been higher in temperature, and wdiere I would receive no rise 

 to my files from the speckled trout. 



The President: Do they take the fiy well? 



Mr. Willard: Indeed they do. I was so pleased with the 

 grayling that I applied to the U. S. Commission and received a. 



