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and everything accumulating in there, and the natural 
food growing there, you can raise enough to take care of 
your yearlings without any trouble whatever, and that is 
the most important time. ‘That is the time I fully agree 
with the paper in relation totransplanting. But I would 
not put out in any stream fry; I should raise them in 
these natural ponds until they are yearlings and then 
transplant them. 
The question has bothered me a good deal. I have 
thought much about it, about trying to propagate enough 
in other ponds to feed the fish after they get older, and 
of course I have been interested in those papers which 
have referred to that. I have my doubts, however, of 
doing that upon a sufficient scale to feed larger fish. The 
fish are very voracious and need a great deal of food. 
But the fact that you can take care of the young fish, is 
of itself a very important question in trout culture, 
Make more ponds; plant the weeds and the stuff in 
them; put in the freshwater shrimp and the other crusta- 
cea, that will grow according to the location and the 
section. You can raise food for the young fish without 
any trouble whatever, and get your fish up to yearlings 
and then transplant them. 
I have also experimented on raising other fish than 
trout ; and some three or four years ago I gave the result 
of my experience in Lake Geneva in putting in the sal- 
mon trout. We have expended a great deal of money 
in Western States, in Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa. The 
Fish Commissioners were very enthusiastic in the matter 
of taking the spawn of the salmon trout from the great 
lakes and hatching them and putting them into the 
smaller lakes with which those States abound. But I 
think it has been a failure all through. I made the 
experiment in Lake Geneva, which was a lake particu- 
larly adapted. It is of a character like the, lakes of this 
State—Hemlock Lake, Cayuga Lake and those other 
lakes. A deep water lake, 150 feet deep, perfectly pure. 
