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have trees that will give him a crop at once, and if he 
would stock a stream he naturally wishes yearling fish ; 
hence the scheme of feeding trout until they are a year 
old commends itself to the anglers and also to their jour- 
nals, but what they want and what we can afford to give 
them are different things. The nurseryman will give 
you several small trees for the price of an older one, and 
the fishculturist can give you a hundred, or more, fry, 
cheaper than he can raise and deliver you a yearling 
trout. That the yearling is worth many fry is true, for 
it has escaped a class of enemies that can only kill 
smaller fish, but the kingfisher can still take it, and does. 
I will not consider the question of the ability of a pond- 
fed fish to take care of itself, for it may be able to do so, 
and I propose to treat the subject squarely and strictly 
on what I believe to be its merits. 
- At the last meeting of this society, it seemed as if my 
position was unsupported to any extent, and this was not 
encouraging to one whose only object was the general 
good of fishculture, but months afterwards letters of 
approval incited an experiment in the cost of feeding 
young trout and a consideration of the expense of plant- 
ing them; but it was not until the first of January last, 
that my foreman received orders to weigh and record the 
food of 16,300 brook and brown trout, the hatch of the 
previous spring. The record gives date, pounds of food, 
temperatures of air and water, and remarks on weather, etc. 
It covers the months of January, February and March, 
1892, ninety-three days, on three of which we had no food. 
If it be said that these fish, so near a year old, would 
consume more food in the last quarter, the record shows 
that on twenty-three cold days the fish were not taking 
much food, ranging from four to eight pounds of horse 
meat, against fifteen or twenty pounds on other days. 
During the previous quarter, October to December, I 
have the word of the man who cut the meat, that the 
fish took more food; for we have little cold weather on 
