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fif^hos that ^[r. Titcomb s])oke about, we have to i)ro])a.i;ate them 

 ill such larii'e quantities that it would be folly to attempt to do 

 that on a snialler scale, and wo have also found reimirkable re- 

 sults from the planting of the fry of some of the other fishes. 

 Take, for example, the yellow perch. 1 will just give one ex- 

 amitle that came to my attention within the last few months. 



Year before last we planted a krge stock of yellow ]te!-ch 

 fry in a town in Wayne county, in which that fish did not exist 

 previously. The pond was a large artificial one, intended for a 

 reservoir for the Delaware and Hudson canal, manv years ago, 

 and it was filled with pickerel, and what was known as the 

 ''shiner,'" I think, or the roach, hut no })erch whatever. We 

 made a plant year before last, another last spring, and one this 

 spring. This spring there were good yellow perch fish in that 

 ])ond. It is a pond we use for getting bait for our bass. The 

 su])erintendent reported very frequently he caught quite as many 

 yt'llow ])erch as he did halt. There was an example of planting 

 fry. These fish were planted wnthin twenty-four hours, some- 

 times within six hours after hatching at -that particular point, 

 illustrating the possibility and the good results that can follow 

 the planting of actual fry. 



And the same results followed our trout. Our trout fishing 

 to-day in rennsylvania is better than it has been for many years. 

 Five or six years ago it was scarcely worth while to go out on a 

 troiit stream. To-day the trout fishing is good. 



Mr. Fullerton : Mr. Bowers' statement is reallv the meat 

 of the whole argument. Get them up to the tributaries of the 

 main stream, and you will always get good results. There is 

 no mistake about it. We have tried it in Minnesota, and we 

 have tried a method 1 think a irreat deal of. We send the frv 



