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known facts also speak with no uncertain sound; for 
instance: the condition of fry when planted is such that 
they must have food at once or they perish, while on the 
other hand the yearlings are in condition to go without 
food for a considerable length of time. Also one of the 
greatest losses suffered in planting fry is their being 
devoured by larger fish, which loss in planting yearlings 
we do not find as great. To test this difference, I placed 
100 fry in a tank 8 feet long, 2 feet deep and 18 inches 
wide, containing twelve yearlings; in another tank of 
same dimensions, I placed twelve yearlings with six 
three-year old trout, this for the purpose of noting how 
soon each would disappear as prey. The fry were all 
all gone in six hours, while in the tank where yearlings 
were with the three-year olds, only two were gone the 
second day. Remember, please, that our argument rests 
upon actual experience and not theory. 
Another argument we have to meet is regarding the 
matter of distribution, and we can say, in distributing 
yearlings to-day, we have no more difficulty in transport- 
ing them than we do fry. In our distribution this last 
winter, by making fourteen trips with the car and carry- 
ing 80,000 trout from two and a half to seven inches 
long, there was an actual loss of 1,738, and of this loss 
938 occurred on one trip in which some accident occur- 
red with the tanks, making a loss of about two per cent. 
This clearly answers the question as to transportation. 
Can the distributers of fry inform us of the actual num- 
ber planted or the actual number lust in transit ? 
The work of planting yearlings is no guesswork, as 
the fish are counted into the tanks when put aboard the 
cars and counted out when planted, the captain of the 
car receipting for the fish and then again having the ap- 
plicant receipt to him for the actual number planted. 
An objection urged against planting artificially fed 
fish is, that when turned into waters to be stocked, they 
are naturally looking for the food they are accustomed 
