20 FISH AND GAME. 



EXHIBITIONS. 



The popularity of the educational exhibitions of fish and 

 game at various agricultural fairs in the Commonwealth is well 

 evidenced by the increasing number of requests which are 

 regularly received. This year no fewer than twenty-eight were 

 made at Lawrence, Cambridge, Gloucester, Marshfield, Barn- 

 stable, Athol, Worcester, Grafton, Maynard, Taunton, Wake- 

 field, Topsfield, North Easton, Barre, Willimansett, Abington, 

 Greenfield, Amesbury, Westport, Great Barrington, Palmer, 

 Northampton, Ware, Segreganset, Wareham, Fitchburg, Attle- 

 boro and Holyoke. By reason of late arrival and limited funds 

 several requests had to be refused. 



The efforts we have made at the various fairs in the past 

 have stimulated great interest in our work, with the result that 

 many of the local associations are now providing permanent 

 exhibition cages, and furnishing aquaria, water, etc. In all 

 instances the Commission loans its material, and provides a 

 trained man to take charge of the exhibit and to answer all 

 inquiries as to the work. 



The first 1916 exhibition was at the annual Gloucester Day 

 celebration in Stage Fort Park, where our display was given a 

 very prominent location. Ten aquaria containing trout, salmon 

 and pond fish such as the Commission is rearing and distribut- 

 ing, and ten cages of birds from the State game farms, were 

 exhibited. Such displays are of particular interest to many 

 persons who never before realized what the State has accom- 

 plished in public fish and game propagation and distribution. 



On June 17 and 24 an educational exhibit of fish and game 

 was given at the Boy Scout field day at the Harvard Stadium, 

 Cambridge. Ten cages of live game birds from the State game 

 farms and ten aquaria with various species of fresh-water fish 

 from the State hatcheries were displayed to an appreciative 

 audience. Those exhibited principally included the brook and 

 rainbow trout, Chinook and landlocked salmon, small and 

 large mouthed black bass, bullhead, yellow and white perch, 

 pickerel and sunfish, together with the specimens of all of the 

 game birds reared in several stages of their growth. It is our 

 intention to add to these exhibits preserved specimens of our 



