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literature for reply to these inquiries rests in the fact that condi- 

 tions differ so in different parts of the country. If we could get 

 up a paper which would be applicable to all parts of the country, 

 where people want to put in artificial ponds of from half an acre 

 to fifteen or twenty acres in extent, or even larger, it would be 

 one of the most valuable pamphlets for the use of the people at 

 large throughout the country that could possibly be prepared; 

 and in considering that we have to take local conditions into con- 

 sideration, it is very desirable that we have papers just like the 

 one that Mr. Lovejoy has written, from each state, to show the 

 local conditions. 



The main trouble with most people who construct these arti- 

 ficial ponds comes from the fact that they most always choose a 

 ravine or some place that they can throw a dam across, and think 

 they have got a pond, and the following spring they stoclv it and 

 it goes out, and they are discouraged. 



Dr. Bean : I would like to add a few words on that subject, 

 because it so happens that my attention has been most forcibly 

 called to the lack of good common market fish in a number of in- 

 land cities. For instance, in Indianapolis, not very long ago I 

 was at a Lumber Convention at the best hotel in the city, and or- 

 dered what I supposed would l)e easily obtained at Indianapolis, 

 because the state is so rich in that fish, a yellow perch, from the 

 bill of fare. Well, the fish was simply uneatable. 1\ ow the same 

 experience will be had by any one who goes to St. Louis, for in- 

 stance, and attempts to order the fish which are indigenous to 

 that state, the cra])])y. the bass, the Jack salmon, so-called, whicli 

 is the pike perch, and other common fishes. You simply cannot 

 get them except at the highest priced restaurants in the city. 

 Now, there is no reason why such a state of things should exist, 

 and I presume this is true of almost all the great cities of tho 

 United States, barring Boston, New York and a few other cities, 

 which are noted for their fine fish markets ; but it is a fact, as Mr. 

 Titcomb has well said, that the ignorance about the methods of 

 supplying the market M'ith fish, and good fish, is deplorable. 

 There is no excuse for it, as far as I can see, except that the peo- 

 ple do not know how to get these fish. They have them, and it 

 would be so easy to instnict them as to the methods. For exam- 

 ple, we will take a gentleman who lived in Covington, Kentucky, 



