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out cod? Now I think tho carp had better go down, down into 

 the water and stay there. (Great hxughter and appLnusc). 



Mr. Seymour Bower: One of the objections made to the 

 carp is because he has got scales, but 1 think there is a way to get 

 around that — at least I heard of an experiment in tliat direction. 

 An old friend of mine, living on the banks of the Kaisin, was in 

 the poultry business, and with rather indifferent success, and he 

 conceived the idea of raising carp in connection with poultry. 

 So he built a few ponds and diverted a stream from the river t'> 

 the ponds and got in a stock of carp. His scheme was that when 

 he dressed his carp he would feed the offal to the chickens, and 

 when he dressed his chickens he would feed the offal to the carp; 

 (laughter) and of course, each would sustain the other. It was 

 to be a sort of an endless chain arrangement, a kind of i-eei])roc- 

 itv scheme that jDromised big dividends. T saw -lohn a few year^ 

 after that and I said: "John, how did your coinl)i nation hen-carp 

 enterprise come out?" And he said, "it didn't turn out just as I 

 expected; it worked first rate for a while, and 1 thought I had a 

 fortune, and I would have had too, but those confounded chick- 

 ens lost their feathers, and grew a coat of scales, and the d — d 

 carp lost their scales and grew a heavy coat of feathers !" (Great 

 laughter and applause). 



President: That is a case of hen-i)ecked carp. (Laughter). 



Mr. Seymour Bower : In Michigan, down in Monroe county, 

 es|)ecially, where there was formerly a great deal of prejudice 

 against the car]), it now has many friends; because fishennen 

 liavc learned how to catch and hold them so as to make money 

 out of them, which they are now doing ; and where formerly they 

 were cursing the carp, they are now sounding his praises. 



