Supplement to 



Home IKlature = Stub^ Course 



Published by the College of Agriculture of Cornell University, 

 in October, December, February and April and Entered October 

 X, 1904, at Ithaca, New York, as Second-class Matter, under 

 Act of Congress of July x6, 1894. 



ANNA BOTSFORD COMSTOCK, Editor 



New Series. Vol. II. ITHACA, N. Y., DECEMBER-JANUARY, 1905-6 No. 2 



FISH STUDY 



Photographed by Verne Morton. 



"Up and clown the' brook I ran, 

 Where, beneath the banks so steep, 

 Lie the spotted trout asleep," 



— Whit tier. 



THE FORM OF A FISH 



To many of us the idea of catching a fish in January may seem 

 impossible. Few of us have even asked ourselves where the fish are and 

 what they are doing while the brook and ponds are covered with ice. 

 Those who are able to find a sheltered pool with a muddy leaf -covered 



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