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breedino- suo-o-ests that we should establish near each 

 inland centre of population (e.g., Madura, Trichinopoly, 

 Salem, etc.) a murrel farm purely for market supply, so 

 that fish can be put on the market at a minimum cost 

 of transport. These several farms, again, will provide 

 object lessons to the public in the ideas and methods of 

 fish breeding for profit wherever water can be secured. 



The lessons of the third object of experiment enable 

 us to devise means for establishing numerous centres for 

 the growth and distribution of larvicidal fish 3.nd po7' fanfo, 

 the reduction of malarial disease. 



Finally the existing farm, and still more those which 

 will result from it, will form self-maintaining centres of 

 piscicultural instruction both for our own staff and for 

 the public who may be interested in profitable fish 

 breedinor. Sunkesula itself is necessarilv somewhat out- 

 of-the-way, but its facts and lessons can hereai^ter be 

 demonstrated in centres accessible to all. 



1 6. The conditions and methods for the practical 

 cultivation of coarse fish on the Madras plains were, till 

 the estabHshment of this farm, wholly unknown, and the 

 difficulties very great, especially in this Presidency where 

 the waters are everywhere temporary ; the binomics of 

 the fresh water fish were little understood, and their 

 artificial propagation had never been practised. Mr. 

 Wilson is to be congratulated on this preliminary success 

 which, as above stated, is an illustration of the economic 

 success which only an expert can obtain where the 

 conditions are novel, the difficulties unexplored, and the 

 art locally unknown. 



