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through other private parties, apply themselves for the 
same streams. We determine all those things ourselves. 
When it comes to ‘the closing of planted streams, the 
only way to be done with that, is to take it to the 
Supreme Court of the State, because it is a conflict 
between the interests of the public who have planted 
those waters for the public to fish in, and private indi- 
viduals, and the courts will settle it. And I believe they 
will settle it in the line that if the public have enterprise 
enough to stock those waters for the public benefit, they 
are entitled to fish in them. 
Mr. JAmEs—I think all this goes to the point that in 
supplying fish you must supply food, and in such quanti- 
ties as will let these varieties of fish survive. Then 
comes in the matter of finance in connection with this: 
Will it pay to put in a certain variety of fish without sup- 
plying that food ? 
It is a bad financial policy. Those who are propagat- 
ing fish, who are using the food for fish for supplying the 
market, must necessarily go to such expense as will give 
these fish the requisite amount and the kind of food. 
But of course you have got to keep off the marauders, 
and only plant in such streams as will allow them to sur- 
vive. There must be some streams for black bass, and 
some streams for bass; certain lakes for certain fish. The 
whole question resolves itself down to a certain circle of 
life. We knowthat food after it has passed through and 
been discarded by animal life, goes back into vegetable 
life, again to be taken up. And this growth of vegetable 
life supplies food again for the minute animal life, until 
finally that circle is completed by the furnishing this. 
nitrogenic food for the plant. So we have a circle in 
this way. If we are going to propagate fish with any 
degree of success, we must maintain this circle of life. 
Those that have the supplying of these fish must ascer- 
tain what kind of food, in what quantities, must be 
placed in those streams or be in those streams, other- 
