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the cheapest and which will produce the greatest result 
for the least money. 
This question of food is a particularly interesting ques- 
tion. Caledonia has been alluded to and the Spring 
Creek at Caledonia. And I think there is no stream on 
the face of the earth that produces the amount of natural 
food for trout that that stream does. It has a great 
variety of plants. If you pick up a handful growing in 
any part of the creek, it will be alive in your hand. 
Where you have a stream of that kind, and where these 
mosses and those plants can be set in the stream which 
will produce that amount of food, of course you can rear 
a limited number of trout to a year old at a very little 
expense. We have raised for years at Caledonia—for 
the last five or six years—anywhere from five to ten to 
fifty thousand yearling trout. We have not adopted the 
plan of the gentleman from Wisconsin. But we have 
raised in ponds four feet wide by twelve feet long a 
stream of water running through, feed them upon liver, 
chop it and put it throngh sieves until it is reduced to a 
pulp; and to-day at the ponds at Caledonia we have ten 
or fifteen thousand yearling trout, we have pursued a 
policy of distributing both, although the greater amount 
have been distributed as fry. What we want is best 
results for the smallest amount of money. ‘That ought 
to be the object. Produce the greatest results both in 
trout and food for the smallest amount of money. That 
has been our aim. 
Now the results obtained. One result for instance: 
shad were never known upon the Pacific coast until that 
coast was stocked by the Commissioners of the State of 
New York; and I understand that shad to-day are 
abundant upon that coast, and sell, I understand, from 
ten to fifteen cents apiece. That stocking was done with 
fry, fry were taken from our coast to the Pacific coast by 
Seth Green, under the direction of the Fish Commission 
of this State, and were turned loose on that coast where 
