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egos, but we don’t undertake to raise four million fry, but 
I do raise two or three hundred thousand fry to be year- 
‘lings. Iam really glad that gentlemen take these things 
up and discuss them. But the point is to protect your 
fish. You take one hundred thousand fry and plant them 
in a stream, put them right in where there are other fish, 
and a great many of them will be eaten up.- That we 
know. Of course, if you plant fry as Michigan, Wiscon- 
sin and New York have done, you are doing a great work. 
I have never said that these States have not done a great 
work in planting trout fry, because they have. I brought 
here last night evidences of what the Michigan Fish Com- 
mission have done, both in rainbow trout and other fish ; 
but I hope they will never put a trout in a grayling river 
in the State of Michigan or in any other State. Now, 
what I say is this. Protect the fry and keep them from 
the other fishes by raising them at the hatcheries, if that 
is the best you can do, or by having rearing pools at the 
head of the stream or wherever you can. 
Mr. MatrHer—We will fight it out fairly now. This 
letter says, ‘“Speaking of * * * * to a certain ex- 
tent we are doing the same this year.’? But he does not 
have to transport them, he hatches them right there. 
Mr. CLarK—Yes, but he could transport the fry all 
right. 
Mr. MatHER—Mr. Clark and Mr. Page have skipped 
the question of transportation. Mr. Page did not touch 
at all on the transportation of the fish. It is going to take 
a great deal of money to doit, and a great deal of the time 
of the men to do it, and I believe you can hatch fish in 
quantities large enough to overcome all casualties by 
death, and I say just put them in in plenty, and at a small 
cost comparatively. 
Mr. Page raised the question of who would take care of 
these fish. Well, the Lord provides for their care if there 
is any food in your streams, and they will scatter and find 
