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and detrimental to the growth of crops, it would at once 

 be remedied by law, or the factories suppressed as nui- 

 sances ; and the law is just as able and effective and power- 

 ful in the one case as in the other. 



The refuse from manufactories of all kinds, as saw- 

 mills, distilleries, paper-mills, i^ulp-mills, starch-factories, 

 oil-relineries, etc., usually found on the banks of streams, 

 should be required by law to be run into pits and converted 

 into fertilizers or other products, or burned, or otherwise 

 disposed of. In most cases such a law would be a bless- 

 ing in disguise to the manufacturer, for the refuse or 

 offal could be made a source of proht, as is now being 

 proved in several instances in various parts of the country. 



If this were done, and our beautiful streams restored to 

 their normal condition of reasonably pure waters, the work 

 of the lish culturist and the lish commissioner would be 

 returned a million-fold, and in many cases the iishes 

 would multiply and increase naturally. 



The net and seine tishing of the estuaries and at the 

 mouths of coastwise streams should be regulated by good 

 and effective laws, so that a reasonable proportion of the 

 tishes would be enabled to pass freely and unharmed up 

 the streams for the purpose of spawning. And the young- 

 should be protected at all times, and their catching or sale 

 be declared illegal. 



Just and rigid laws should likewise control the fisheries 

 of the Great Lakes and large streams, and the protection 

 of the young lish especially provided for. 



The Iishes of the inland streams and the loater of the 

 streams should be effectually protected by similar laws, 

 which should provide close seasons during spawning-time, 

 the prohibition of nets and seining, spearing, or the use 

 of dynamite. 



The jpenalties for violating these laws should be so 

 severe as to cause a due respect for the same ; but above 



