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pond at some good point; for instance, in Michigan we 
might get near some good lake which we think would 
be adapted to them, and have our nursery and keep 
those fish by themselves, where no enemies could take 
them, and then let them out in the lake afterwards. 
Mr. Paage—Upon the tendency young trout have to 
settle in one place after being planted, I want to say 
they don’t scatter or roam about in search of food for a 
considerable length of time after they have absorbed 
their food sac. They huddle up in one spot, and any | 
one knows who has paid any attention to it that their 
enemies are legion. I would be afraid to state now from 
memory how many snakes, destructive birds, lizards, 
etc., we have killed at Neosho Station; but we killed 
in three months last fall twenty-five hundred pounds of 
crayfish ; and as for snakes, I killed one day in a poola 
snake, and when opened we found he had taken twenty 
young brook trout. 
