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taiiily have a strong auxiliary right hand to help lis. 

 (Applause). 



Dr. Bartlett: While I am a strong advocate of the car]i and 

 their increase and value and all of that, yet a note of warning- 

 ought to he sounded in every state of the union as to legislation 

 on the subject of the carp, and it should be of such a nature as 

 to keep them down. If the people of the state of Illinois had had 

 their way two years ago, the Illinois river and all the waters of 

 the state would have been so full of carp as to have crowded out 

 all of the other gamier varieties of tish. Carp increases so rapidly 

 that legislation in all states ought to l)e had to allow them to 

 take these coarse fish. We have thrown open the state of Illinois 

 to the seining of these coarser fish. 



To answer my friend's query as to cooking them, ]X'rmit me 

 to say that a carp taken out of the very muddiest of water, killed 

 and bled as soon as taken oiit, laid in salt water over night, par- 

 boiled and baked with proper sauce, can not be distinguished 

 from the finest red snapper. 



Dr. Parker : Another mode of preparation of carp is by 

 smoking and curing them, as is done with halibut and sturgeon. 

 A gentleman \\\\o had eaten them said to me he liked them better 

 than halibut, though not quite so well as sturgeon, which he con- 

 sidered the finest smoked fish in the world. 



Mr. Dunlap : In the line of General Bryant's suggestion I 

 would like to move that Dr. Bartlett be requested to prepare a 

 paper on the subject of carp, covering the subject as fully as 

 possible, to ])e read at the meeting of the society a year from now, 

 and 1 would say that the fish commission would l)e very glad to 

 publish that paper in the Bulletin, as we all know there is very 

 little literature on that subject; and I think from what we have 

 heard that Dr. Bartl(>tt is prei)ared to discuss the sul)ject in all 

 its phases. 



(An inquiry was made as to the value of the carp as a game 

 fish, that is as to their being any sport in getting him with hook 

 and line). 



The President: Yes. If you can get him, it is great s]iort. 

 But the only way to do it is to take a ])iece of potato or dough 

 and sink it to the bottom, and when you have got him on your 

 liook there is no fish in the world equal to him for sport. 



