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favor of the view, that they would stand transportation just as 
well then as before. 
Mr. Clark: That is quite a point, I think for those who are 
distributing fry. ‘There has always been such a hurry to get the 
fry out early, in order that they may find plenty of food either as 
soon as, or before the sac is entirely absorbed. 
Mr. Titcomb: Is not there another point there? I want to 
ask two or three questions in connection with it. But the first 
important point is the fact that this fish will stand nineteen 
days fasting. We will say that you distribute them just as they 
are ready to take food: a great many people argue that they are 
very weak and get very little food. We will acknowledge that 
some of them fast after they are planted, more or less, after the 
first 19 days. But this brings out the conclusion that that fast- 
ing is not going to injure them, as it is a point in favor of fry 
planting. 
IT want to ask Mr. Atkins if he sees any advantage in feed- 
ing 6 days just before the sac is absorbed, before fasting, or would 
the other method be best, of having them begin the fast im- 
mediately ? 
Mr. Atkins: I see no advantage in this, but I had heard it 
said that it was better to avoid any feeding and then interrupt- 
ing it. 
Mr. Clark: That is right. 
Mr. Atkins: So f thought I would try that series of lake 
trout in that way, feeding them a few days first and then making 
them fast, and they caine out in very good shape—in such very 
good shape that in several thousand there were only two losses 
in August and two in September. 
Mr. Titcomb: Another question: Between the control ex- 
periment and the other did you consider the volume of water sup- 
plied to each trough as a factor? 
Mr. Atkins: Well, not carefully, no sir. 
Mr. Titcomb: You gave, of course, a much larger flow to the 
_ control trough which had the larger number of fish in it, than 
to the others ? 
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