[7] DISTRIBUTION OF CARP. 949 



Carp furnished by Dr. Rud. Ressel, from the Monument lot ponds, <^-c. — Continued. 



Date. 



Name and address of person supplied. 



Kumber 

 and kind 

 of carp. 



1881. 



May 9 

 9 

 9 

 10 

 11 

 11 

 15 

 15 

 15 

 15 

 15 

 16 

 18 

 18 

 18 

 19 

 22 

 23 

 23 



Jane 8 



J. E. "Webb, Greensborough, Ala 



J. H. Hart, Mentor, Ohio 



Johnson Palmer, Black Lick Station, Pa 



Mississippi Fish Commission 



E. T. Alexander, Mooretield, W. Va 



New York Fish Commission 



J. B. Hawshurst, Ilomowack, N. Y 



J. D. W. Moore, Cabin John, Md , 



R, H. Stewart, Athous, Ohio 



A. J. Pratt, Winchester, Va , 



Charles B. Major, Elizabeth, N. J 



C. Stinach Athens, Ohio 



B. M. Hartshorn, Highlands, N. J , 



C. W. Davenport, Cambridge, 111 



J. F. GUmoro, Btll's MiU, Pa 



C.Clark Olds, Erie, Pa 



E. F. Merill, Washington, D. C 



H. M. Mitchell, Fowler, 111 



"W. G. Delaabmutt, MartinsTille, HI 



John Dietrich, Plainfleld, N.J 



Total 



20 S. 

 20 S. 

 20 S. 

 500 S. 

 20 L. 

 20 L. 

 20 L. 

 20 L. 

 20 L. 

 20 L. 

 20 L. 

 40 L. 

 15 L. 

 25 L. 

 15 L. 

 50 L. 

 12 L. 

 24 L. 

 12 L. 

 20 L. 



66,165 



The records of the earliest cari) distribution are not so complete and 

 accurate as might be desired, and the writer had no personal connection 

 with it. He has gathered up from many sources whatever he could 

 bearing upon the subject, and it is presented here in order that a serious 

 gap may not be left uncovered. The work in its incipiency did not give 

 promise to reach the gigantic dimensions of to-day. There was no 

 surety that carp would be acceptable as food fish, and it was not intended 

 to replace other and better fish, of which there are several kinds. The 

 Commission had no office nor clerical force except two or three men em- 

 ployed in Professor Baird's private residence, and it has been his aim 

 from the start to spend as little money as jjossible on office machinery 

 and to get the greatest attainable results in fish culture. Hence the 

 difficulty at this date, four years removed from the period in question, 

 of reporting fully thereon. The following table is intended as a consol- 

 idation of all attainable data regarding the distribution of carp reared 

 in 1879 and 1880. Keports of the results attained will appear next year. 



Table showing by States the final destination, so far as obtainable, of the carp distributed by 

 the United States Fish Commission from the crops of 1879 and 1880. 



ALABAMA. 



