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out to the people, especially in the southern part of the stiite, 

 where the streams run right past the villages, and thoy make 

 the ponds themselves and turn them out, and they claim they 

 have s]')lendid results. But I know that for the planting of fry, 

 if tlu'v are ])hinte(l iiitelligently, that is the whole thing — the 

 whole meat in the coeoanut. If you plant in streams where 

 they can get down you will have Ijetter results. 



^Ii-. V. Hart Gee]-, lladlyne. Conn.: Xow 1 am a firm be- 

 liever in planting tingerlings, and yet I am liberal enough to 

 believe that where fry are ])lanted successfully and good results 

 are obtained, that that is the best way to do. In Connecticut 

 and mostly all the New England states we find that the finger- 

 lings are the proper thing to plant for trout. In regard to black 

 bass, I will state a little instance. I believe the fry, or, as some 

 have termed it, the advanced fry, are just as good as to rear them 

 to fingerlings. The H'ousatonic river, which was a noted bass 

 river in Connecticut, was almost depleted of 1)lack hass, and the 

 commission planted several thousand of tliese advanced fry, 

 and r(^ports come to us that in that river the small bass are seen 

 in great ninnl)ers. And that seemed to me ratlicr conclusive tliat 

 black bass planted as fry are successful. 



President: A man may be pardoned for bis first offense. 



Dr. H. M. Smith, AVashington, D. C. : Witli Commissioner 

 Bower's permission. I should like to refer to the question of 

 raising shad in ponds at Washington, which tlie gentleman who 

 has just spoken has referred to. There were, in previous years, 

 some very noteworthy results from planting shad fry in fisli lakes 

 in Washington, and in tlie fall we turned out many thousands, 

 perhaps millions, of yearling fish. But the recent experience of 

 tlie Inireau of fisheries was decidedly nnsatisfactory. We planted 

 in oni' large pond that bad been used in previous years for this 

 purpose, approximati'ly aliout two million or two million and a 

 half fry — I think it wns ;d out two million — and in the fall we 

 drew down this ])ond. and as near as 1 can rt-eollect, turned into 

 the Potoniae river tliirteen hundred small sunfish, and several 

 hundred Warmouth l)ass, a few l:)lack bass, a few hundred yellow 

 l)ercb, and two or three hundred river lierring, and one shad. 



