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places ; and if that is the case, the matter of transportation 
will not come in. 
Mr. Post—How would you do with two or three thou- 
sand streams? Would you have points on all of them ? 
Mr. Vincent—As I understand, the fish will distribute 
themselves over a large area if they have the opportunity. 
We perhaps have five or six rivers which reach the Ohio 
River, and their tributaries taking in perhaps two-thirds 
of the State, the Scioto, the Hocking, the Muskingum and 
the Little Muskingum, which reach up to within thirty 
miles of the lake. The question I want to get at is whether 
it is more practical to turn the fish into the rivers after six 
months of age or to put them in when they are fry. 
Mr. Matuer—I would just like to ask Mr. Clark one 
little question; that is, if it is better to plant your fish as 
yearlings, why do you not advocate the planting of them 
all as yearlings, if that is the best plan ? 
Mr. CLARK—One great trouble with that is that if you 
undertook to raise five millions of fish, it would be a very 
great expense. 
Mr. MarHer—That is the point. 
Mr. CtarkK—Now hold on, hold on; but we can raise 
from two to four hundred thousand at a hatchery with a 
very slight additional expense. Why? SBecause you are 
going on with your regular work, and you have to have 
your regular men, and your regular men can do this work 
of caring for the fish during the fry stage. You take five 
million, and, of course, you have to hire some additional 
help, and you have to be to some additional expense ; 
but it may be, in the course of human events, after we get 
this question around, as it comes around now, that we 
will advocate the raising of them all. Of course, that 
would be quite an additional expense. Of course, in re- 
gard to the yearling question, our arguments have all 
been on trout. Now, I advocate the handling and rear- 
ing of whitefish in the same manner. Have a rearing 
