100 BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 



ever, on account of any question as to its abstract value, but because 

 it is thought by many to savor of ' class legislation.' Some of this class 

 are of those who are always opposed to anything and everything that 

 calls for a dollar of the public funds, while there are others who hon- 

 estly think that the cost of maintaining any industry should be borne 

 by the industry itself. 



" Our penning work at Monroe promises to be very successful. We 

 now have upwards of 1,500 fish in crates, all doing well, and will put 

 in a few hundred more. 



" The young whitefish which we will send you from Northville have 

 been reared on precisely the same food as our brook trout; viz, chopped 

 beeves' or hog's liver. We feed them twice daily. Our success with 

 these fish makes it safe to say that the whitefish can be made a pond 

 fish in cold waters if raised from infancy in ponds or tanks." 



Growth of California trout. — Mr. J. S. Delano, writing Sep- 

 tember 16, 1884, from Mount Vernon, Ohio, says : 



"The 51 two-year-old California trout you kindly gave us last spring 

 have done remarkably well, and the young fry from Northville have 

 been a great success, too. I really think some of the two year-old are 

 18 inches in length, and we have not lost one. 



"Our success has encouraged us to bring from a distance of 1,800 

 feet another supply of water, which was sufficient, this dry summer, to 

 fill a 6-inch sewer tile, with a fall of about 1 foot in 200 ; the tempera- 

 ture 50°. This fall the 51 two-year-olds must" be moved into the larger 

 lake. The young fry, many of them now 5 inches long, must also be 

 moved." 



Mr. Emanuel H. Frantz, of Clear Spring, Washington County, Mary- 

 land, under date of August 6, 1883, says : 



"Some California trout and landlocked salmon were sent to me, which 

 I placed in the large dam. I saw one jumping up last week which sur- 

 prised me. It was fully 20 or 24 inches long. They have been in the 

 water over three years. The dam is over 10 feet high, and the back- 

 water extends 150 yards, and is 65 yards wide." 



Shad in Georgia waters. — Mr. Newton Simmons, writing under 

 date of December 10, 1884, states that he had recently seen General 

 Young, of Georgia, from whom he learned that the plant of shad made 

 in recent years in the Woostanoula and Etowah Kivers has been a great 

 success, and that a great many shad were taken out of these two rivers 

 last spring and the year before. 



Concerning the increase in shad in this State, due to propagation 

 and the taking shad with bait in Chattahoochee River, Dr. H. H. Ca'.v 

 writes as follows in his report to the Commissioner of Agriculture for 

 1883 and 1884: 



"In 1880, 1,000,000 shad fry were planted in the waters of Georgia, 

 and in 1881, 1,800,000. This was the work of the United States Fish 



