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Mr. Fearing : I would not worry about their going anywhere. 

 They are like Mark Twain's steamboat. You will remember he said 

 if there was a heavy dew and a man spitting tobacco juice over the 

 bow the steamboat would go. (Laughter.) 



Mr. Buller : We found them dying by the millions. They could not 

 get up through the fishway. 



Mr. Fearing: But you will find millions got there just the same, 

 and they got there over the slime and the bodies of the dead and dying. 



Mr. G. H. Thomson, Colorado: This matter of fishways is espe- 

 cially interesting to us in the west ; and we have more to contend with 

 on these fishway propositions in our irrigating ditches than anywhere 

 else. Tt is absolutely impossible for our trout to get above some of our 

 dams ; and after stocking our streams above the dam we find that the 

 fish go down, but they cannot get back. 



Mr. J. Q. Ward, Kentucky: I wanted to ask if the paper read on 

 fishways will be printed in the annual report? 



President : Yes. 



Mr. Ward : And the description of the dam and fishway built by 

 Professor Dyche in Kansas is already printed in the Transactions of 

 last year? 



President : Yes. 



Mr. Ward : How can I get one of those reports ? 



President: The Secretary will send it to you. Write to Mr. Ward 

 T. Bower, Washington, D. C. 



Professor Dyche: Last spring one day we placed 6,000 yearling 

 catfish in a pond that was 50 feet long and about 20 feet wide; thtf 

 water was about three feet deep. That pond was connected by a 3-inch 

 pipe that led under the ground to another pond 60 feet away. During 

 the night the outlet to the pond got partly stopped up with moss and 

 the water rose four inches above the usual level. About 5,900 of those 

 catfish came up within six inches of the surface, went down into the 

 supply pipe and took the underground passage against the current to 

 the next pond. When we drained the second pond we discovered that 

 5,900 went through in one night. If they will go through a place like 

 that it would seem that they would go through almost any opening and 

 especially through an ordinary fishway. 



Mr. Fearing: You never knew a catfish to go up a fishway, did you? 



Professor Dyche: Yes, they do in the Michita fishway, both bull- 

 heads and channel catfish, and in goodly numbers. 



President: I will give an experience that I had in Minnesota. It 

 has been a nightmare with me. For years I have got more damning 

 about fishways than for anything else. 



Mr. Nevin : Not more than I have. 



President: Every man that did not have fish above the dam blamed 

 the Commissioner. My experience in fishways, had through a number 

 of thorough tests, is that muskellunge, pike-perch, pickerel and bass 

 will not go up a fishway to any extent. Bullheads will go up a fish- 



