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is satisfactorily accomplished by shipping from Red Lake to St. 

 Paul in refrigerator carload lots and distributing from there. 

 This insures delivery of the fish fresh and wholesome in mid- 

 summer. 



The following quotation from a country newspaper describes 

 a typical instance: 



DOING HIS BIT. 



"J. E. Madden, the local real estate man, has been doing a valuable 

 service in the interest of food conservation which many people in this 

 community are no doubt unaware of. Early last spring the State Game and 

 Fish Commission employed help to seine fish in the big lakes in the northern 

 part of the state, the fish to be used as a substitute for meat and sold at cost. 



"The plan proved popular and has been continued ever since. Each 

 week tons of fish are shipped to the larger cities of the state and disposed 

 of in short order. 



"The first box which came to Waseca was sent in care of Mr. Madden. 

 He tried to get some local retailer to handle it, but none of them cared to. 

 Mr. Madden did not propose to send the fish back so he placed the box on 

 the walk in front of his office, dug up a scales and some wrapping paper, 

 started a curbstone market and soon sold the fish to the people as they 

 passed on the street. 



"A box of fish arrived every week since and Mr. Madden has been right 

 on the job as selling agent. But in this case he receives no commission or 

 compensation for handling the fish, making change, remitting the money 

 and other work incident to the job. Like war workers, he is doing his bit 

 for the good of the cause. And in the meantime many a family in Waseca 

 enjoys a fine mess of fresh fish each week at much less expense than the 

 average cost of catching them." 



It has not been practical in Minnesota to follow the admonition 

 of the U. S. Food Administration to use the fish taken exclusively 

 in the immediate vicinity of their production. We have found our 

 opportunity in supplying those portions of the state which have 

 no lakes or local fish from those other sections which abound in 

 both. Where lakes abound, the people supply their own needs, but 

 where there are no lakes the people have eagerly welcomed the 

 opportunity we have given them to get fish. For some unac- 

 countable reason there are scores of small towns in our state that 

 never saw a fish on sale until they began to receive the state fish. 



POPULARIZING COMMON FISHES. 



Prior to the inauguration of the state fishing such common 

 and lowly kinds of fishes as lake carp, sheepshead, mullets, and 

 goldeyes (mooneyes) were seldom, if ever, seen irt the better meat 

 and fish markets of the cities and were wholly unknown in the 

 smaller communities remote from lakes where they are produced. 



