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was added to it until after they were five or six months 
old, the mush would be increased. I have gone over 
that cost very carefully, interest on the cost of the plant, 
labor and artificial food given them makes it well on to 
eight cents per pound of trout. To illustrate the advan- 
tage of that, Mr. Young Robinson, at Mammoth Spring, 
about two hundred miles from me, in Arkansas, is rais- 
ing trout and is fortunate in getting fifty cents a pound 
for them. I hope there are no dealers present to take 
advantage of that. He could well afford to sell those 
trout at twenty-five cents a pound. I venture to state 
that, because Mr. Seal asks in his paper as to what it 
would cost to raise trout. I know it costs very much 
more in some localities; for instance, my friend Mr. 
Mather cannot afford to buy beef liver. We use it now 
on some forty-five or fifty thousand trout fry, fifty pounds 
of liver a week and about fifty pounds or seventy-five 
pounds of shorts. 
Mr Martuer—I would like to ask Mr. Page one 
question: If he has made any inquiries what it would 
cost to raise a yearling trout; or what is his opinion ? 
Mr. Pace—We raise our yearling trout at about 
eight cents per pound and turned out a little over nine 
thousand pounds of fish last year, or trout. Average 
cost of attention, food, interest on the plant, etc., is 
about eight cents per pound. 
Mr CiarK—Mr. Mather did not ask me, he asked 
Mr. Page that question. [would say that a short paper 
that I have, will give those figures, exactly what it costs 
to raise a yearling fish. 
Dr. BRapLey—lI will ask for information: I am con- 
nected with a hatchery. We hatch about from five 
hundred to eight or nine hundred thousand a year. We 
have trout, brook trout, living in the same lake with 
bass, and they do not eat each other up; we catch 
brook trout and bass out of the same lake repeatedly. 
Mr. WHITAKER—We avoid planting black bass and 
