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this geutleinan from Germany, who has lived there all 

 his life and is well informed, assured me that the 

 brown trout was doing exceediugl}' well in waters of 

 70° in summer ; so there is a difference — of course 

 doctors disagree. 



There is a very interesting point in connection 

 with this paper — the marvelous statement of this gen- 

 tleman w^ho says carp are to be despised, because they 

 are so cheap. The price of carp here rivals the price 

 of our better fish in our markets, and in some cases far 

 exceeds it. Let me say a word for the much despised 

 and much disparaged carp. Of all the varieties of for- 

 eign fish attempted to be put in American waters, I 

 look upon the carp as one of the most successful and 

 desirable. This may be the rankest heresy, but I tell 

 you it is a fact, and the future is going to show that it will 

 occupy a distinct place in our domestic economy. Its 

 strongest feature will be as a food for the poorer peo- 

 ple. I do not know, taking into consideration the 

 prices current as given in the Fishing Gazette, but 

 that it will be too high for the common people, because 

 the wholesale prices reported in the Fishing Gazette, 

 which I have had collated for more than two 3^ears, 

 show a wholesale price, I think, a little over six cents 

 a pound, and there are some other men to make a profit 

 out of it still. It is an edible fish. A great mistake 

 regarding carp in this country is that the general 

 belief of the people has been that it is a rare fish, and 

 that it is a rival of the trout or the white fish, or some 

 other desirable fish. Nobod\^ ever introduced it with 

 that idea. I do not believe it, although it is highly 

 esteemed with the food fish of Germany, surrounded 

 b\' the glamor of the romance of the ro^'al dish for the 

 king ; at the same time it is a good fish and must enter 

 into our domestic economy. 



One word with regard to the fry. In Michigan we 

 have not attempted to introduce the carp into our Great 



