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away: "Oh, hell, 1 thought you were going to give me some big 

 enough to eat." 



Me. George H. Graham, Springfield, Mass.: I cannot help having 

 a kindly feeling toward Professor Dyche. I believe he is on the right 

 track, and if every commissioner in the United States were on the same 

 track that he is. we would have something done. He is trying to popu- 

 larize the work, and he is going at it in the right way. 



In the first place he has gone to the legislature with a concrete 

 proposition; he has tcld them what he wants to do, and is putting it 

 up to them as a business proposition. It is not any fad, such as we 

 have in a good many states. It is a husincss proposition; he got all 

 the money he wanted. 1 believe that any commissioner can go to the 

 legislature, and if he can convince the legislature that he is going to 

 do something for the benefit of all the people, he can get what he wants. 

 We in the eastern or the central part of the country would not take up 

 the kinds of fish that he is handling; but he has taken up the fish 

 that they can raise in Kansas, and he is getting the people interested. 



In the eastern part of the country I believe we can get a great many 

 fanners who have small streams interested in raising brook trout. I 

 had an article printed in a newspaper to that effect and immediately six 

 people came to me and asked if I could give them any literature to aid 

 in constructing ponds in which to raise brook trout. They had plenty 

 of good water, but did net know how to use it. Well, 1 wrote around 

 to some of the different commissions and to the Bureau of Fisheries, 

 and to Mr. Townsend in New York, and tried to get some information. 

 All I got did imt amount to very much. There does not seem to be 

 anything printed that is very good to send to a farmer who is green at 

 the business, which will show him how to go to work to raise these 

 fish. My idea is that we should endeavor to make the work more popu- 

 lar. You get a hundred farmers in a county interested in raising 

 fish, having trout ponds, etc., and they will help you in the legislature, 

 and in many ways in the work, and that is just what Professor Dyche 

 is doing out in Kansas. I believe the more people we can get interested 

 in fish culture and the propagation of fish and game at the same time, 

 the mure popular will become the work of the fish and game commis- 

 sion, and when you can make the work very popular, you will get all 

 tin- financial support from the state and national government that you 

 want. Professor Dyche is on the right track, and 1 believe we have 

 all learned a gO' d deal today from what he has had to say. 



Mr, Meehan : 1 think we can agree there, for in Pennsylvania, when 

 il was announced that we would raise catfish and other commercial 

 fishes they increased our appropriation from $35,00(1 to $205,0(10. 



Mr. Fearing: As a fish commissioner of Rhode Island I want to 

 thank Professor Dyche from the bottom of my heart. He does not 

 know what it is to go before a legislature that thinks there is "a nigger 

 in the woodpile" all the time. Mr. Graham stated that any legislature 

 would do anything if it was put before them as a business proposition. 



