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had been deposited in the natural method, and capturing 

 some living fish, left on his way back with eighty large 

 grayling in eight twelve gallon milk cans, and one 

 hundred and six eggs. He arrived at Caledonia on the 

 6th of May, with the loss of one dead fish and two tatally 

 injured. From conversations had with trappers and 

 hunters, it is supposed that grayling are found in the Au 

 Sable, Manistee, Muskegon, Board man, Au Gray, Rifle, 

 Marquette and Cheboygan ; in the latter in company 

 with the brook trout. The latter fact would go to con- 

 firm the impression that grayling would live in our trout 

 streams. 



The adult grayling were placed at first in a pond with 

 a small water supply. Here they did not seern to do very 

 well and were soon transfered to another pond which had 

 a strong current. In this they recovered, but preferred 

 to lie at the head of the pond and in the quickest current. 

 They soon became tarne and mixed with the brook trout 

 without being molested. They were fed the same food 

 and treated in all respects as the brook trout. 



The eggs, one hundred and six in number, were hatched 

 out in the same way as the eggs of the brook trout ; their 

 incubation taking about the same time. The young fish 

 looked at first like the whitefish ; but the young grayling 

 is larger and has a larger sac than the white fish, though 

 smaller than the brook trout. They took food very 

 readily and though it was very neat work at first to feed 

 them, after they had grown a little they gave no trouble. 

 There is no doubt that they can be raised artifically, but 

 the question remains whether that is worth while. They 

 are more delicate to handle, require as much care and 

 must have equally difficult conditions. 



When first hatched they lie on the bottom like young 

 trout, but commence to swim on the third or fourth day. 



