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now it seems to be a combination of thetwo. That is quite 
a different thing. Of course, those of us who have known, 
and that, of course, includes all who have had anything 
to do with the work of the different States, of the remark- 
able success in all the States of the planting of the fry of 
the brook trout, would resent the idea of giving up the 
planting of fry and taking up the planting of yearlings in 
their place, because it would be putting something in the 
way of experiment in the place of success. Now that is 
not advocated by either of the gentlemen to-day, and prob- 
ably we will get around finally on to ground where we can 
all agree. The idea of raising two or three hundred thou- 
sand yearlings out of two or three million fry is not a 
question of fry versus fingerlings ; it is a matter simply of 
diverting a part of your fund for raising or hatching fry 
into the transportation of yearlings. 
It may be that there is a great deal of truth about what 
Mr. Page has said about there being places where year- 
lings will do better than fry, but the problem of cost con- 
fronts every one of the State Commissioners, which Mr. 
Page says they leave to their superior officer, and which 
he says we should leave to the Legislature. We go to the 
Legislature to get all the money from the Legislature we 
can. The problem with us is how to spend that money to 
get the greatest results. If with the small appropriations 
we get we are going to get the very best result from fry 
planting, and our work shows it, we shall be able to get 
from our Legislature larger and larger appropriations to 
increase the work we can do. So, when it came to be dis- 
cussed heretofore whether we should change from old 
methods which had produced great results from small ex- 
penditures to a thing which was an experiment, we were 
taken by surprise. But the question as it has been dis- 
cussed to-day is quite a different thing. 
Mr. CLiarK—I don’t know but I am on my feet more 
than I am entitled to be, but that is just the shape of the 
