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streams, I would not plant yearlings. If I found that 
the fry were eaten up by something else, I would try 
yearlings to see if they would live. 
Mr. FarrsANKs—I would suggest that yearlings might 
be put into a place in a stream where food did not exist, 
and when they came to spawn their natural instinct 
would take them to the place in the stream where food 
existed. Just like trout go to spawn on the reefs in the 
great lakes because their food is there for the young. 
And the yearlings would naturally hunt up in the stream 
a place where there is some food. 
Mr. MatrHer—About the cost of raising trout I 
should like to hear. 
Mr. GriLpErt—The cost of my feed last year was 
about $400, and with that amount of food I raised about 
30,000 yearlings. I have got now that number, and we 
have sold since the first day of April, 5,730 pounds of 
trout to the time I left home yesterday morning. Those 
have been raised from yearlings to two years old, large 
enough for the market, and also the 30,000 year old 
trout, all for the sum of $400 for the food for the whole 
year. I cannot say what part contributed to the young 
fry or to the yearlings or the year old fish up to two 
years; I do not keep any separate accounts. That does 
not include the cost of labor, but merely food. 
Mr. MatHER—What do you expect to sell your year- 
lings at? 
Mr. GrtperT—Well, we want $100 a 1,000. I would 
sooner sell fry for $4 a 1,000 than sell yearlings for $100 
a 1,000. When you get trout a year old, my loss is not 
probably five per cent.; I do not know that it is three 
per cent. from year old to two years old. The great loss 
is up to four months. Although I do not know that up 
to the present time By the way, we never feed in 
the hatching boxes. 

