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States Fisheries, at their propagating grounds at Wash- 

 ington, and planted them, and on both occasions 

 through the heav}^ rains, notwithstanding that I took, 

 as I thought, ample precautions, I lost all my carp 

 after they had pretty well grown ; and in the large 

 stream right near there, about half a mile below where 

 my ponds were, connected by a stream, two years after 

 that they were finding an abundance of carp, and the 

 boys around the neighborhood were much rejoiced to 

 catch large carp in the main stream. I think some of 

 my neighbors, likewise, lost their fish in the same way ; 

 so that I think we were instrumental in quite largely 

 populating the Vancouver stream, on which my farm 

 was located, and in the surplus water of which we 

 undertook to propagate fish, was pretty well filled with 

 the carp. 



