140 Thirty-fifth Annual Meeting 
body of water that ‘s only big enough to hold one or two species 
of fish. I do not think I can lay that on the scientific brother. 
You have more trouble with the layman than with the scientific 
man, and that is particularly the trouble in regard to the plant- 
ing of fish. 
Going back to Mr. Atkins’ work some years ago, some people 
began to agitate (and they were not the scientific people) the 
planting of trout, for instance, in the fall of the year instead of 
the spring of the year: “because,” they said, “the fish have been 
taken care of in the hatcheries all the summer and they are fine, 
large size, and can take care of themselves a great deal better 
when planted in the fall of the vear.” That bit of poison got al! 
through Pennsylvania, and is not yet out of the system; although 
our experience has shown that the planting of advanced fry pro- 
duces best results; but men will say today that in streams where 
there is better fishing than there has been for twenty years, it 
would be better to have 250 trout in the fall of the year than 
1,500 in the spring,—that is “the lay brother,” not the scientific 
man. 
Mr. Titcomb: I believe the subject of fry versus fingerlings 
is taboo in this society, but I want to agree with the last speaker 
on the demands of the angler. It is astonishing to see the num- 
ber of kinds of fish that the man thinks he can get into a sma!l 
pond. My question to Dr. Bean was put because a great many 
people today want the brown trout; the majority of them have 
never seen brown trout and only know it is different from what 
they have, and they do not want it necessarily because it comes 
from Europe but they want it just because it is different; the 
New England people call for rainbow trout, although we have 
not succeeded in introducing them, after putting millions of 
them there——but they want something different. In Penn- 
sylvania the people are learning gradually that the rainbow trout 
is not very valuable and they are coming back to the native trout. 
It is the same thing all over the country. They get in one or two 
kinds and want half a dozen. 
Mr. Whish: I only wish to say that it has always seemed 
to me that the scientific man ought to be a sentinel on the outer 
works to give warning of the approach of the enemy; and he 
