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Show a .m:w FISH SI ISSTI'l I IK It has lung been an acknowledged fact that trout are dying out in our streams and fant becoming extinct. As tiic country becomes more thickly thick-ly settled, the trout arc rapidly caught up, anil owing to tho presence of d.ims and other artificial obatruclions they are driven from their spawning ground, and thus unable to replenish replen-ish their depleted numbers. Pisciculturists Piscicul-turists have been long seeking for fome fish more hardy than the trout to take its place, and have found it mm they believe, in thu "grayling," a, fish Biniilar in all respects to trout, which abounds in Europe, but which until recently was supposed not to bo indigenous to this country. As yet, however, the grayling has been found in but one stream in thi-j country the Au Sable river in .Michigan. Solh (J reei 1, being confident that this hub is destined hi play au important p,irt in stocking .our exhausted exhaust-ed trout streams, h(:nt out to Michigan for specimens, and bus received two line graylings from U. II. Fjtzhugh of Bay City. Mr. J'iU-hugh J'iU-hugh writes that they aro abundant in Au Hablo river. J It; took these specimens with a lly and could have : made a good day's sport 11 1 tho business busi-ness had he felt disposed. Mr. (ireen has examined the fish and finds it identical with the old country grayling, gray-ling, if it proves to be a spring-hatching spring-hatching Ji.ih, as is bel-i'vcd U) be the cue, iL will naturally be more hardy than tlio trout, nnd therefore well adapted lo lake its plucc in the stream 1 where thf lultcr can no longer propagate itn sjiecicn. 'I bis is 1111 important discovery, in it will rave the trouble of going to Kn rope for them fnh, and ilemoiiftn;tes at bi name time Hint tln.ve jspeciea will hi ecd uud tlouri,di in our watfi'fl. th ireen will vi-it ihe Au S tble river at the proper time, 11ml make preparations 0 experiment with the grayling. (ocImmUt ' |