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Air and water are usually furnished without price, but 
the great struggle of the animal world is to get food, and 
it feeds upon anything it can come to; if driven, upon its 
own kind even. After this sac is absorbed, this small 
fish immediately turns its attention to taking care of 
itself. The small fish or fry instinctively seek at once 
the upper channels—you never see fry going down 
stream. I can go right into Caledonia and I will find 
little trout wiggling up stream. I think they instinct- 
ively go up stream to get food and get away from their 
enemies. This is simply a question of opinion, and I 
think gentlemen should express their opinions fairly. I 
am not a believer in the fact that so many of these fry 
are consumed by their enemies as a great many men seem 
to say. Of course there must be great mortality ; they 
have a great many enemies. So have the larger fish: 
you have the snake, the kingfisher and a variety of ene- 
mies, and more or less fish will be consumed. But the 
fact is patent, that the streams of Michigan and Wiscon- 
sin and the Adirondack region of the State of New 
York, have been stocked by the distribution of fry. 
Now, my own judgment and my own belief is, that that 
is the cheapest and the best way to produce the best 
results. We hatched at Caledonia from four to six mil- 
lions of fry. To raise those to yearlings, you cannot do 
it on my friend’s plan from Wisconsin. Perhaps there 
is a water that you can put in twenty or thirty pounds at 
the most.. If I had a pond of my own and was pursuing 
it for my own benefit, I would undoubtedly pursue the 
same course as my friend; but when you pursue business 
on a wholesale scale, you have got to follow a different 
plan from where you plant two hundred thousand for 
your own use. I can raise any amount at Caledonia, but 
when you come to raise four or five millions for distri- 
bution, you have got to have something to supply the 
demand. And I think that is where this question turns, 
If you are going to raise a large number, five, six, or 
