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soon after being put into the trays, and the force of egg-pickers should 

 be increased to whatever extent is necessary to pick the dead eggs from 

 each tray every second day, until the fatality decreases or the unim- 

 pregnated eggs have been removed. The neglect of a day or two finds 

 the eggs matted together in bunches by the outreaching Achlya prolif- 

 cra, and the loss becomes great. Continued care and attention that the 

 trays and eggs be kept clean and free from the confervoid is essential. 

 Little success can be expected from the old-fashioned trough, where it 

 is impossible to clean the gravel after the eggs are put in. 



The Clark, the Holton, and the "Williamson apparatus are all used 

 along the lakes for the whitefish work. 



On page 443 of Part II, Eeport of United States Commissioner, will 

 be found a full description of the transportation-cans and the mode of 

 using them in the transportation of shad. 



I believe I have now replied to all the inquiries made by Mr. Von 

 Behr with reference to matters of fish propagation. 

 Yours, respectfully, 



JAMES W. MILNER, 

 Deputy United ^States Commissioner. 



Prof. Spencer F. Baird, 



United States Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries. 



D— ADDRESS MADE AT THE MEETING OF THE GERMAN 

 FISHERY-ASSOCIATION AT BERLIN, MARCH IG, 1877,* BY 

 MR. YON BEHR, SCHMOLDOW, PRESIDENT OF THE ASSO- 

 CIATION, MEMBER OF THE GERMAN PARLIAMENT. 



Gentlemen: A disagreeable word demands admittance at the gates 

 of Germany, as it does in most of the states of Europe, nnd this word 

 is '•'■ Depecoration.'''] 



This word which has unfortunately been adopted by our language, I 

 call disagreeable, not merely on account of our postmaster-general, but 

 chiefly on account of its meaning; for it means, that the number of 

 those quadrupeds whose flesh supplies food for man is decreasing both 

 absolutely and relatively if compared with the increase of population. 

 It can easily be calculated what this means in Germany, where the 

 number of the before-mentioned animals is decreasing at any rate. 

 Let us count fifty pounds of meat annually for each of the forty-two millions 

 of inhabitants of the German Empire — and this is certainly a very low 

 average — and we get a total of 2,100,000,000 pounds of meat consumed 

 by the population of Germany in one year. But as the average annual 

 increase of the population has been 400,000, the quantity of meat ought 



* From circular No. 3, of the German Fishery-Association, Berlin, March 21, 1877. 

 t From de privative and pecus-oris a herd or flock. The reference to the postmaster- 

 general, is a humorous allusion to his prejudices as a purist. — Ed. 



