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Mr. Farrsanks—These salmon are weighed before 
spawning when they come in in June, and then in Octo- 
ber you weigh them just before spawning, the spawn 
having been growing all the while, growing on the food 
which they got out of the ocean and the water, etc. It 
is the increased weight of the spawn that probably makes 
them weigh more. After they have spawned they would 
weigh a good deal less. 
Mr. Bincortt—I am very much pleased to see how 
cheap fish breeding has become; I mean to say that for 
the first time in my life. I have been in this business off 
and on for a long while. I now find you can raise trout 
and raise fish for nothing! And it isa miracle to me 
that the thing should come down to that basis. And if 
we can put out yearlings at a few cents a pound, I think 
we ought to go to work and doit. I was formerly in 
favor of fry; now I am in favor of yearlings by all 
means. For I find they can be brought up for nothing. 
One gentleman says nothing; one says eight cents; 
another says four and five cents; another says under 
eleven. That is the highest price. So I am decidedly 
in favor of yearlings. I think it would pay the United 
States to hire those gentlemen to show how it can be 
done, and buy our fish from them and stock our rivers. 
It is the cheapest thing I know of. (Applause.) 
* ‘Dr. Hupson—I want to say this single word to cor- 
rect a wrong impression of the gentleman who represents 
the State of New York,.Mr. Bowman. He stated in 
his remarks that while the Hudson River was being 
stocked annually with shad fry, that they had ceased 
doing the same on the Connecticut. I have no means 
of knowing where that impression arose. | know it does 
exist, but it is not correct. During all these years that 
the shad has been decreasing in the Connecticut River, 
the stocking has been going on precisely the same as 
formerly, and in very large numbers. If you ask me 
why the shad are now decreasing where they formerly 
