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States, maintain a great central establishment of this kind, to do for the fisheries and 

 the sciences upon which they depend what agriculture and agricultural science have 

 had done for them by means of the forty nine agricultural experiment stations and 

 the almost equal number of agricultural colleges with which they are connected! 



8eve?ith. We should create a national association, after the model of the Deutscher 

 Fischerei Verein, in which fishermen, fish-culturists, legislators, social economists, and 

 philanthropists may work together to develop enlightened public opinion and to pro- 

 mote the interests of the nation and of mankind in this department of human activity. 



If all these ends shall be attained for the fisheries, and the work of the Govern- 

 ment for agriculture, forestry, and the mines shall be carried to equally abundant 

 and beneficent results, we may then feel a just pride in the ability of our Eepublic to 

 make its public institutions serve the economic interests of the people. 



