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Mr. Ctark—There is one little point here. Some of 
the members here do not know me as well as Mr. 
Mather does., I do not wish it to be understood that I 
advocate nothing but planting yearlings. Not for a 
moment. It would be utterly impossible to raise them. 
But I mean to do as the United States Fish Commission 
does, last year at their carp ponds in raising shad put in 
there, raise what you can. White fish the same way. 
Mr. BowmMan—Have you ever raised a shad from 
young? 
Mr. CLark—They have shad that are fourteen months 
old as I saw them, nice, clean, healthy shad, in salt water. 
The shad the gentlemen saw there last year, they were 
two inches long. Now, with shad and white fish, what I 
advocate is having places of that kind to keep them and 
then let them go out in the fall as two, or three, or four- 
inch fish, but not undertake to raise them all. 
Mr. Forp—I have a statement to make: I have never 
believed that the young trout fry were always subject to 
danger from so many enemies, as was popularly sup- 
posed. I asked our superintendent to make a plant in a 
small stream that runs through our grounds at Allen- 
town. This is what he says: “I planted the fry at the 
age of six weeks or about the middle of February. and 
visited the stream once or twice a week until April rst. 
I always found the fry just where they were planted. 
They appeared to be doing well and growing faster than 
those in the hatching house pianted in March or April.” 
They all appeared to do well. I certainly do consider it 
the best and most economical way to plant a stream, put 
fry out. They have been well fed. The fry are large 
and strong, and able to take care of themselves. Now, 
I will say that the State of Pennsylvania has always put 
out her fry at the age of two or three months. This 
year we have put out over three millions young fry. 
We could have put out six millions; we had applica- 
tions for that many, but we didn’t have the fry. Again 
