TWELFTH ANNUAL MEETING. 29 
Thinking that here, near at hand, was a body of water that only 
required trout to be introduced for the species to propagate and 
grow to a proper size to afford good fishing, I obtained permis- 
sion from the owner of the pond to use it as a fish storehouse. 
I then introduced a quantity of brook trout from six to eight 
inches long, and waited patiently for the fulfillment of the pro- 
gramme as I had marked it in my mind. Water, trout and time, 
all the conditions to insure success. I think it was only a year 
afterward, when I found that I had neglected a very important 
ingredient—something for my trout to eat. Their growth was 
so slight that I failed to discover it, and a friend suggested that 
I add more fish, but this time a more common kind, those gen- 
erally known as minnows. The canal was near at hand, and I 
procured and put into the pond a large quantity of small bait 
fish, I did it entirely out of sympathy for the trout, for at the 
same time I noticed that my scheme was a failure. A number 
of years later a piscatorial friend informed me as a great secret, 
that there were some great trout in Perine’s Pond, and we at 
once proceeded therein a body. As fi caught trout after trout— 
great lusty, fat fellows—the scales fell from my eyes, and fish 
food became of as much interest to me as food fish had been, 
and afterward the mere creeling of fish, that showed by their 
condition a lack of proper food, failed to satisfy the angling 
spirit that was born within me, for I was confident that a little 
labor would bring a change that the fish, and afterward the 
angler, would appreciate. 
At the first meeting of the Schroon Lake Fish-Culture Asso- 
ciation I urged the importance of introducing food for the fish 
with which it was proposed to stock the waters from whence the 
association derived its name. In reply, it was stated that the 
lake already contained whitefish, the natural food of lake trout, 
and the latter fish was the only one we proposed to deposit the 
first year, to keep up the supply of the disappearing native trout. 
Whitefish here may have been bad, they must have been few in 
numbers comparatively, for the lake trout would come on the 
shoals for the yellow perch, and were taken in August while 
trolling for bass near weedy shallows. As the home of this 
trout is in the cool depths of the lake, hunger alone would force 
