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A parallel case is to be found in the agricultural college requiring 

 a certain amount of practical work for graduation. Here students 

 are often employed on private farms during the vacation period. 

 It ought not to be difficult to make similar arrangements between 

 universities and those operating hatcheries for the latter to employ 

 worthy students of fish culture. 



Wherever it is possible for a university to maintain a plant for 

 fisli production, this is to be strongly recommended because of the 

 many advantages to be derived from the close contact of student 

 with the actual work of the hatchery and because of the oppor- 

 tunities here offered for specialists to engage in the study of the 

 many unsolved problems of fish culture. 



IV. Financial Aid. 



The training of men to engage in practical fish culture and the 

 investigation of fish cultural problems cannot be done without 

 adequate financial support. Especially is this true of the latter, 

 in which case special and expensive laboratory apparatus is 

 essential to success and in which the results are obtained only after 

 careful and prolonged research. 



It is most urgent that more work be done upon the problems 

 of fish diseases, fish forage, selective breeding of fishes, pollution 

 and others which vitally affect successful fish culture. However, 

 we must not expect that these can be satisfactorily solved without 

 financial assistance. 



We are forced to believe that one of the greatest reasons why 

 progress in fish culture has not been as rapid as in many other 

 branches of husbandry, is a lack of financial support. For these 

 reasons we strongly recommend: 



First. That state and national governments, and persons who 

 may wish to advance the worthy cause of fish culture, render 

 financial aid to those universities disposed to offer the courses 

 outlined in this report. 



Second. That so-called "industrial fellowships" in subjects 

 relating to fish culture be established in institutions possessing 

 facilities for research to the end that properly qualified investiga- 

 tors may be encouraged to work on the problems most vitally 

 and immediately affecting the interests of fish culture. 

 Respectfully submitted, 



G. C. Embody, Chairman, 

 R. C. Coker, 

 John W. Titcomb, 

 Raymond C. Osburn, 

 Jacob Reighard, 



Committee. 



(This report was approved by vote of the Society. Unfortunately the 

 discussion of the matter has been lost through the fault of the stenographer.) 



