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Mr. Hare: In speaking of trout, did you speak of planting them 

 in the advanced fingerling stage? 



Mr. Buller: We do not call them fingerlings. We plant nothing 

 under nine months. 



Mr. Hare: I want to ask you one of the most pertinent questions 

 one man can ask another in regard to fish culture. How do you arrive 

 at the conclusion as to the relative worth of trout fry and trout finger- 

 lings? 



Mr. Buller: That is a different subject. 



Mr. Hare: If you will answer it we will crown you lord of all. 



Mr. Buller: I may say that we in Pennsylvania have probably 

 more difficult problems to work out than any other State. We have 

 for many years been planting fry without any results. We are increas- 

 ing and improving our trout fishing in spite of the many adverse condi- 

 tions that we have to meet, and it is done only by rearing trout until 

 they are a catchable size before they are put into the streams. I know 

 that there is a large hatchery on the Lackawaxen River, on the banks of 

 which I live; and you can put 10,000 fry into that stream and a month 

 afterwards you can search for trout without success. I know every 

 nook and hole and ripple in that stream, and I will give you fifty cents 

 for every trout you find there resulting from that planting. In this 

 same stream I have gone out in the morning and in half an hour come 

 back with from seven to nine trout twelve to sixteen inches in length, 

 any time I wanted to do it. 



Mr. Culler: Have you had any experience in planting eyed trout 

 eggs? 



Mr. Titcomb: I rise to a point of order. 



Dr. Embody: We have a paper on that subject; would it not be well 

 to defer any discussion until that paper is presented? Let us confine 

 our attention this afternoon to the matter of fish food. 



Mr. Buller: We have our trout fishermen, who believe in the elim- 

 ination of every other fish in our waters except trout, and who think 

 we should devote all our time and attention to the propagation and rear- 

 ing of trout. Then, we have the small mouth black bass man who takes 

 the same position in regard to the bass. We have another class of 

 fishermen, a class which outnumbers either the advocates of the trout 

 or the advocates of the ^ass, made up of people who love to catch 

 yellow perch, catfish, bluegills, suckers, and fish of that kind. We are 

 therefore devoting a lot of time, energy and money to the propagation 

 and raising of these various fishes. ' We find that the most profitable 

 of the catfish in our waters is the common bullhead. We are rearing 

 these in great numbers and growing- them until they reach a size of 

 two and a half to four inches with very good results. 



Mr. Adams : With regard to your bullhead fry, will you tell us how 

 you get them, how you feed them and bring them to that size in the 

 fall? 



