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fish and furnishing them with natural food from the 
creek. And we have every promise of success in such 
an undertaking. 
In conclusion, I cannot refrain from expressing my 
deep solicitude concerning this question, for more is 
dependent upon the successful and increased planting of 
yearlings than even practical fishculturists think for. To 
my thinking, much of the future of fishculture is 
dependent upon it, and I trust that all present will enter 
heartily into, not only a discussion of the question, but 
also a practical testing of it. 
At its conclusion, Mr. Fairbanks said: What do you 
find the natural food of the young white fish to be? 
Mr. Cirarxk—I did not say I had found it. I think 
the food is in the water. I think the article of Professor 
Forbes enters into that subject more thorougly than I 
could. Heshows us what the natural food is. 
Mr. MatHer—What does your liver cost you at your 
hatchery ? 
Mr. CLark—Three cents a pound for beef liver. 
PLANTING FRY VS. PLANTING 
FINGERLINGS. 
By James NEvIN. 
Mr. President and Members of the Fisheries Soctety - 
For the past few years there has been considerable 
said by some prominent fishculturists, which has been 
taken up and discussed by the press against the planting 
of small fry in the streams; and that much better results 
will be secured if the fish are kept in the hatching house 
or reared in the ponds until they are some six or eight 
months old, and planted in much smaller numbers. 
There are several States in the Union which have been 
engaged in fishculture and planting fry long enough to 
know whether their work has been successful or not. 
I see by the Detroct Trzbune of the issue of April 
