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Mr. Whish: In New York state the yellow perch is a favor- 
ite fish, and although we do not attempt to raise them we dis- 
tribute them, because we find that where there are a lot of yellow 
perch to be caught in the ponds, the small boy and the average 
fisherman are satisfied to catch them, and do not bother the bet- 
ter class of fish. There are certain small streams running into 
one of the lakes, and in these streams the small perch seem to 
come up from the lakes. I have always thought they came up 
to escape the large fish. At any rate, we take advantage of 
their coming and simply go there with a little net and cans, and 
scoop out millions of them in the fall and ship them as finger- 
lings. I might also say for the edification of the yellow perch 
brethren, that I would as soon catch yellow perch on a light rod 
as trout. “If that be treason, make the most of it.” Yellow 
perch sometimes grow to a weight of four pounds in New York 
state, and if any gentleman wants to know where those perch 
are found, I will send him a map of the district. 
Mr. Meehan: I think one of my superintendents, Mr. Wil- 
liam Fuller, of Corry, was the first in Pennsylvania to begin the 
work of experimenting on yellow perch, and he will tell you 
something about expressing the eggs from the fish themselves. 
Mr. Buller: I had no trouble in placing them and they fer- 
tilize just as well as any. 
Mr. Harron: I think Mr. Downing spoke of the egg stick- 
ing. I have made some little experiments with the impregnation 
of the eggs, and | found that it was always the case that they did 
stick for a while. In the case of the eggs that I collected from 
the fish, whenever I would hoist the car to take out the eggs I 
did not find a single string attached to the car. They were all 
loose and floating buoyantly over the bottom. 
Mr. Downing: One reason that they stuck so persistently 
to the bottom of the pan was, that the pan was a little bit dry 
when the eggs were put in, and they adhered to the bottom and 
they stayed in the pan till they hatched, and they hatched as 
well out of the pan as out of the jar, and apparently they all 
hatched. 
