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shrimp meal, even if mixed with the other foods, to supply vitamines. 

 He tells me that in the experiments made at Cornell the fish took the 

 shrimp meal very readily when it was sprinkled on the water. But the 

 experiment has never been made on a large scale. At the station where I 

 am in charge we use approximately 75 or 100 tons of fish food a year. It 

 occurs to me that if we could obtain information as to the approximate 

 quantity of this feed that is used by each state, as well as by govern- 

 ments and by private individuals, and if the relative values of these 

 foods could be determined by tests carried on by the Bureau of Fish- 

 eries, there might be a greater demand for it than there is, particularly 

 in view of the fact that the price of meat has so largely increased 

 during the last few years. We formerly bought butterfish in 180-pound 

 crates at two cents a pound ; now they are charging us four or five, 

 and do not care whether they sell to us or not. The fish culturist who 

 gets a price of ten or twelve cents a pound on a certain kind of food 

 will compare it with some other food the price of which is only three 

 or four cents a pound. There is nothing to enable us to check up the 

 relative values of the different foods that are being used. 



Mr. Radcliffe: Shrimp meal will run between 43 and 47 per cent 

 protein, and fish meal from 55 to 60 per cent. You would think, there- 

 fore, that fish meal would be the better feed, but the experiments car- 

 ried on by the Bureau of Animal Industry in feeding hogs showed 

 that when shrimp meal was fed the results were just as good as those 

 obtained from the feeding of fish meal. The value of this feed lies in 

 some of the other elements, such as vitamines. 



Mr. Titcomb: This last phase of the discussion brings very forc- 

 ibly to my mind the importance of having, in connection with the United 

 States Bureau of Fisheries, an experiment station similar to agricul- 

 tural experiment stations, where these problems concerning fish feed 

 can be dealt with. The relative values of shrimp meal and fish meal and 

 of the livers and plucks of various slaughtered animals — the relative 

 values and the relative prices possibly, of some of these by-products — 

 ought to be given publicity. We ought to be able to feed our fish in- 

 telligently, in order to get the best growth for the least money. That, 

 to me, is a function of the Federal Government, because all the states 

 are interested in the problem. The College of Agriculture at Cornell 

 is doing a little of that work on a very small scale, and I assume that 

 Professor Cobb's college on the Pacific coast will also do some work 

 in that connection. I know that the present Commissioner of Fisheries 

 has been very desirous of getting an appropriation from Congress for 

 an experiment station. I think that the colleges which offer courses 

 in fish culture and fishery industries should have federal as well as 

 state support, and be operated on the same extensive plan as is the case 

 with the agricultural college. I cannot let this opportunity pass without 

 expressing my view that the Federal Government ought to support that 

 branch of experimental work in fish culture and all that pertains to it, 

 , including the study of fish diseases. A resolution on the subject adopted 



