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that state of things due to tlie fact tliat it is the wrong season, or 

 are the Illinois fish of a better quality. 



Dr. Bartlett : The carp do not bring the prices I have given 

 at all seasons of the year, but along the Illinois river they under- 

 take to catcli the carp and hold them until the best season to sell 

 tlieni, and they are placed in ponds for that purpose. On Clear 

 lake on the Illinois river a man has an enclosure of ten to twelve 

 acres, and these fisn are put in a pen as it were and kept until 

 the proper time to market them. 



Mr. Clark : As I have casually looked over the market re- 

 ports in the Fishing Gazette, I do not think I ever saw carp 

 quoted above tliree cents. I have looked at the market reports 

 on whitefish, bass and everything else, and if I recollect rightly, 

 from two to three cents is the quotation on carp. 



Dr. Bartlett : I can show you quotations at six and seven 

 cents. 



Mr. S. W. Downing, Put-in-Bay, 0. : The reports show the 

 price at Ft. ('linto]i to be forty to sixty cents a cwt. One firm 

 informed me tliat the day before I was there they had bought 

 and shipped 28 tons of carp. The same firm last year liought 

 and shipped 700 tons, and another firm there I believe did a still 

 larger business, which would make something like 1,503 tons 

 shipped irom Ft. Clinton alone. So I think the figures given are 

 altogether too small. 



Mr. Clark : I would like to ask how those prices, forty to 

 sixty cents a hundred, compare with herring prices in the fall? 



Mr. Downing : A little less than now. 



Mr. Clark : I mean in the fall catch, how do they compare ? 



Mr. Downing: A little less than the herring, but just about 



the same. 



Mr. Clark: The herring is considered (luite a fish in the 



great lakes. 



Mr. Peabody : Regarding the price of car]) I had a conver- 

 sation with ^fr. Ravenel last summer, and I think his point very 

 well taken. I have known peaches to sell in the Chicago market 

 for five cents a l)asket, and I have known them to sell for $5, and 

 it depends entirely on the season and the conditions. Xow Mr. 

 Ravenel says that the proper time to eat carp is about Thanks- 

 giving time and a little later; the carp then has value in Xew 



