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They have in them (the sysco) the natural food of the sal- 
mon trout, in its mature condition. And I thought it 
was particularly adapted to the raising of the lake trout. 
I pursued it for five years; putting in about half a mill- 
ion every year, of healthy young fry; hatched them, 
raised them, brought them up, and then dumped them 
into the lake. And I never have seen any sign of the 
salmon trout in that lake of any size. Not even the fry 
that I put in, or fish of six or eight inches or a foot long, 
or any size; never any sign. And the reason of it, I fol- 
lowed it out after a while, to my notion, it was entirely 
the lack of food for the young fish—for the fry. In the 
great lakes, in all these New York lakes, where the sal- 
mon trout is indigenous, where they have increased them 
by stocking, there are ledges of rocks, or reefs, about 
which the fish spawn. About those rocks is some small 
animal life, which I have never investigated to see what 
it is, but it is evidently something on which the young 
fish live until they are large enough to eat other fish. In 
this Lake Geneva there are no ledges, no rocks, and 
consequently no food for the young. Evidently every 
one of the young fry put in there simply starved to death. 
Demonstrating that it is absolutely useless to put fish 
into waters where they are not indigenous, unless you 
supply the food. That is the point on which the money 
should be expended in fishculture in my opinion. First 
find out if you can furnish the food for the young fish— 
and the mature fish too, for that matter, But until you 
can do that, do not waste any money on hatching, rais- 
ing and distributing fry. 
Dr. KEary—The trout that you experimented with is 
the common brook trout ? 
Mr. Fairsanks—Yes. One other idea. The gentle- 
man said that he noticed there was abundance of fresh- 
water shrimp in all trout streams. That is true. That 
is what the fish are there for, to eat those shrimps. But 
there are just as many good streams for growing trout 
