ADVANCEMENT IN FISH PRODUCTION. 



By W. D. TOMLIN, of Duluth. 



To secure the best results with the least expeuditure of nicu- 

 tal or physical forces, time and money are the rec}uirements of 

 the age we live in. In the summing up of the qualities that 

 make the so-called benefactors of the human race* the ability to 

 distribute wealth, though connnendable, does not carry away the 

 palm. The man who by a series of experiments, succeeds in 

 producing results that increases the sum totals of natvires implant- 

 ing a hundred fold, is well along the road to produce a benefactor 

 — if by increasing food supplies, creature comforts, or devising 

 recreation as a means to relieve over-worked humanity is just as 

 much a benefactor as he whom from his abundance, relieves the 

 distress of his fellow creatures. 



So, he who in the realm of nature, by careful cultivation pro- 

 duces an increase far beyond that which would be developed by 

 nature's prolific handiwork, must in the same sense be con- 

 sidered as a benefactor- — especially when by such means the com- 

 forts or well-being of large masses of the commonwealth are 

 added thereto — and if by such means the masses can enjoy what 

 has hitherto been a luxury, these benefactions are increased a 

 thousand fold. 



In such a gathering as this, wdiere men whose minds are 

 trained to expect large results, whose work is for the future, 

 who are building for the future; men gathered from the toiling 

 east with its busy hum of industry, men from the brawny west 

 and its grain producing prairies and the land of the setting sun, 

 meeting to confer on the middle grounds of the states bordering 

 on these great waterways; where the busy toilers whose perspir- 

 ing forms shape and fashion into elegance these monsters of iron 

 that are building up the great empire of the west, these bringing 

 the products of the busy looms of the teeming east and carrv 

 them westward, where meeting the produce of the prairies and 

 the mountains and forests, at the docks and elevators of the 

 unsalted seas, bringing back grain, wool, flour, lumber, iron, cop- 

 per, silver and nickel ; and here where the very air is resonant with 

 the song "Iron is King," and the iron and steel age assert their 

 supremacy; under such shadows we unite to consider the produc- 



