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it. If there is no food, it is not a proper stream to stock. 
Another point that Mr. Page quoted, I think from Mr. 
Livingstone Stone, that there was no need of loss of any 
account in troutfry. All of us who have had very much to 
do with brook trout fry for any number of years have seen 
in a batch of trout eggs some little fellows that will just 
break the egg to die; others will hatch and carry along 
until the time comes to take food, and then they die be- 
cause they cannot assimilate the artificial food. Ido not 
think a man can take one hundred thousand trout eggs 
and raise one hundred thousand trout out of them. If 
you have a certain number of eggs of chickens, or calves 
or babies, you are going to lose some of them sure. 
Mr. Pace—I think I could not have made myself very 
clear, When he says I didn’t touch the question of expense 
at all. 
Mr. MatHeR—The question of transportation. 
Mr. Page—AII these questions of expense in this work, 
where it is done by the State or Government, are questions 
that I don’t think cut any figure in the question under 
discussion, so far as you or I are concerned. They are 
matters of consideration for our superior officers and the 
legislatures who order us to do the work. 
But I did touch upon the question of transportation 
when I told you that if your trout fry were distributed 
under the best conditions, with a full knowledge of our 
streams, your expense of distributing fry would approxi- 
mate the expense of distributing yearlings. You are mis- 
taken if you think that was the case. But the trouble is 
that the fry take up a fixed abode; they huddle up in one 
place, and they stay there for three or four months, just 
waiting for a snake to come along and take them in. One 
other point. Did I understand you that only twenty or 
thirty yearlings could be carried in a can on an average in 
the transportation season 4 
Mr. MaTHEeR—If you are going any distance. 
