EIGHTH ANNUAL MEETING. 23 
I am like most of men that have been successful in raising 
anything. We look on it with a good deal of pride, and love 
the little fish that we have watched from the time the egg was 
impregnated to the time they are to be put in the water to take 
care of themselves. It would be avery wrong thing to put 
them in waters where they were sure to die. Brook-trout are 
only suitable for clear, cold waters of which the temperature 
never goes above 70 deg. They will die before the temperature 
reaches 74 deg. Salmon-trout will live only in clear, cold, deep 
lakes. They need the purest water of any fish in this country. 
I have put brook-trout, salmon-trout, greyling, California and 
Kennebec salmon and California brook-trout in a large aquar- 
ium, and as the water became warm the salmon-trout began to 
suffer first. 
There were two each of the above kinds of fish in the aqua- 
rium. They all died before the mercury went up to 74 deg. The 
salmon-trout died first, brook-trout next, greyling next, Cali- 
fornia brook-trout next, Kennebec salmon next, and California 
salmon last. The salmon-trout died twelve hours before any 
of the rest, and all of the others died within four hours of each 
other. The above fish were all three years old, and I have tried 
all of the above kinds of fish by roiling the water with the fol- 
lowing result: The salmon-trout dying first and the brook- 
trout next, and the others soon aiter. 
All of the fall spawning-fish want clear, cold water. The 
whitefish will not live in water above 72 deg. I have seen a 
haul of whitefish come in in a seine, and when they got in shallow 
water where the temperature was 74 deg., ten rods from shore, 
the fish began to turn up, and all were dead by the time they 
were hauled up on the shore. When water gets to a suffocating 
state the fish will not live as long in such water as they would 
live out of water. The spring and summer spawning-fish, such 
as the bass, will live in water as high as 86 deg., or even warmer. 
Black, or lake bass, need purer water than many other kinds; 
they will not do well in small waters. They want large, rocky 
rivers, or lakes with rocky bottom, where there are craw-fish 
and dobson. It is useless putting them in waters that have no 
rock bottom. They will not do well in any waters that have all 
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