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missions, get at the governors and have them a})])oint commis- 

 sions like the fish commissions of Wisconsin and Michigan, 

 Ehode Island and other states which are enthusiastic and in- 

 terested and will promote education as suggested in the resolu- 

 tion. 



Mr. Dickerson : I agree exactly with Mr. Peal)ody. We in 

 Michigan have known that you have more sentiment in favor of 

 fish culture in Wisconsin than we have had in Michigaji, until 

 within the last eighteen months. Xow, Mr. Peabody has made 

 an excellent argument for my motion. I am sure that the gen- 

 tlemen from Connecticut, Ohio and from every other state, 

 would like to know in what manner and how you Imilded that 

 sentiment in Wisconsin. If you have made that sentiment in 

 Wisconsin how did you make it? We in Michigan want to know; 

 I am sure my Connecticut friends want to know, and Ohio wants 

 to know. Xow, my stiggestion is that you appoint a committee 

 to see if the methods successfully used in one state to build up 

 this sentiment cannot be used in another. You let a geniu§ con- 

 nected with any of the great railroad systems devise some scheme 

 in California for the benefit of that railroad system, and it is 

 immediately put in operation, and every ottice on the entire line 

 of that system is made to feel it. Now, if the genius of some- 

 body has builded a sentiment in Wisconsin that helps the work 

 in that state, why should not every other state receive the benefit 

 of liis ability. 



Mr. John E. Gunckel, Toledo, 0. : My friend Mr. Dickerson 

 had in mind only Ohio, when he made the motion and the able 

 argument in favor of something that 1 tliink ought to l)e done. 

 He knew very well that for the last fifteen years I liave been 

 about the only representative from Ohio at these meetings. I 

 am not a fish commissioner, I know nothing al)out tlie liard Avork 

 that my friend Mr. Clark does, l)ut I was originally acquainted 

 with the man who first introduced Ibe propagation of fish, the 

 late Judge Potter. As long as our companions and associates 

 are all right, that makes a man solid and s(piare. Ohio lias done 

 nothing for a number of years; but from tlie information that I 

 gleaned during the last fifteen or twenty years l)y attending these 

 meetings, I went home and in my back yard I tried a new plan, 

 tlie culture of the fish tree, in which I liave been quite successful. 



