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Like success has attended the efforts of the Commissioners in 

 other directions. In conclusion, the speaker called the attention 

 of his hearers to the importance, in stocking rivers, of making 

 the number of fish correspond as nearly as possible with the 

 amount of food to be had by them. He had sought to carry out 

 this idea, and commended it as one essential to success in opera- 

 tions in fish culture. 



Mr. Frederick Mather remarked that in his opinion the 

 black bass, by reason of its predatory instincts, would prove 

 an injury to the shad when placed in the same stream with 

 that fish. 



Mr. H. J. Reeder of Pennsylvania argued that by a proper 

 use of the methods of artificial propagation in shad, no cause 

 for apprehension existed because of the introduction of bass 

 into the same streams with them. 



Mr. Seth Green expressed the belief that the black bass 

 would do no damage whatever, and was unwilling to concede 

 that it would prove in any way injurious to the shad. 



Mr. M. C. Edmunds gave his opinion that it had been found 

 that small streams were not the proper places for the propaga- 

 tion of black bass. 



Mr. Livingston Stone of California (in charge of the fish- 

 propagating interests of the United States on the Pacific slope) 

 called attention to the fact that a car-load of salmon-eggs had 

 recently been sent from that State to Eastern rivers. The 

 number aggregated four million of eggs. The larger portion of 

 these were distributed to the various State Commissioners at 

 Chicago. 



The meeting adjourned until the next day, Saturdav, at 10 

 o'clock, A. M. 



