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sion, who stood, and still stands, with me on this ques- 

 tion. Just why the New York Commission saw fit 

 to quote this personal matter I have no opinion to 

 offer. 



STOCK HEAVILY. 



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At the close of 1898 I wrote the following for the 

 ''English Fishing Gazette" : 



"I believe in stocking heavily. Ten thousand trout 

 fry to a mile of stream filled with chub and other fish 

 are as good as wasted. Make it 100,000 fry or 10,000 

 yearlings to the mile, and then watch the result. If 

 you do this in some fished-out streams with the two 

 American species named above, you may hear from 

 them." 



To this my friend Whitaker wrote to know if I had 

 abandoned my stand on planting fry, as he saw that 1 

 recommended planting "100,000 fry or 10,000 year- 

 lings." My reply was that, as some people will plant 

 yearlings, I wrote in that way, and asked him to look 

 at the New York Report above quoted, saying to him : 

 "We did not attack McDonald's policy ; it was he who 

 attacked ours ; and I do not consider healthy trout fry 

 to be 'helpless' if planted at the heads of streams." 



TIME TO PLANT FRY. 



Fry must not be planted or taken any journey in 

 wagons or by rail until the sac is so nearly absorbed 

 that they can sustain themselves in the water and have 



