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29,296,875. The above amounts added together make 
the total result of the planting of 100,000 yearling trout 
at the end of a three-year period amount to 40,551,225, 
as against 193,753,125 as the result of the fry planting 
of 5,000,000, 
Considering the results, therefore, of fry planting 
from which practically all the results we have are due, we 
must assume that it has been eminently successful, and 
when we consider the cheapness with which this work is 
done it would seem that the ample success of fry plant- 
ing is simply incontestable. 
The President asked for discussion, and 
Mr. Farrpanks said: It has occurred to me on hear- 
ing these papers that there is an opportunity or chance 
to harmonize the views of these people, according to the 
location and the character of the streams of the country 
in which they are located. If there is anything I can do 
to harmonize Mr. Clark and Mr. Mather, I will do so. 
In the first place, consider the question of feeding young 
fry on their natural food in natural ponds. That of 
course takes into account the matter of the cost of con- 
structing those ponds. If the grower of the young fish 
is so situated, if his springs are such that he can construct 
these natural ponds cheaply, if he can make thirty or 
forty of these natural ponds of a hundred feet in diameter 
in which he can plant the weeds and the moss and the 
plants that the shrimp grow in naturally, he can feed his 
young trout until they are yearlings at a very small cost; 
the whole cost is in the original construction of the 
ponds. Maine are very cheaply constructed, a very trifling 
sum. If they are so situated that those natural ponds 
can be constructed and the natural food of the fry can 
be put in there, you can turn your fry in and raise them 
at a very small cost. Under such circumstances I have 
no doubt the yearling trout is the best one to transplant. 
But if he must be fed and it cannot be done cheaply, or 
