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what; we are cleaning. out the ground, and soon we will 
put such fish in such streams as we think will not inter- 
fere with one another in the way of devouring each 
other. We are aiming to accomplish this very object of 
bringing about a large supply of, fish in our different 
streams. We do plant them as far as we can get into 
the springs. We send them off as far as railroads wiil 
carry them, and then send carriages up as far as we can 
and deposit the fry. We have as yet held on to the fry 
business. Mr. Ford will bear me out, I think, that our 
shad supply a few years ago ran down to sixty thousand 
a year, and [ think last year it was in the neighborhood 
of three hundred thousand to four hundred thousand 
catch. So in our propagating the shad as we do there, 
by sending them up the river, we certainly are increasing 
the supply of shad in our Delaware River. 
PLANTING TROUT AS FRY OR 
YEARLINGS. 
By FreD MATHER. 
Mr. President and Gentlemen: 
In the last report of this society, pages 11 to 13, this 
question was discussed in a small way, neither side hav- 
ing any figures to show the cost of feeding and planting 
a trout which was a year old. I am quoted as saying: 
“T do not believe that it is economy to raise trout” [for 
distribution | “to be a year old,” and that belief has been 
confirmed by subsequent experience. The advocates of 
planting yearlings have had an inning and have venti- 
lated their views in the newspapers and periodicals, but 
the other side has not been heard from, and, if I am not 
mistaken, this opening gun from our line will be fol- 
lowed by others of larger calibre. We believe that the 
best results will be had from planting trout as fry and 
will essay to prove it. 
If a man wishes to plant an orchard he would like to 
