American Fisheries Society. 119 



during- the time of the Cincinnati Exposition — I have no doubt 

 that Dr. Henshall will remember him — Joe Schlosser — he was a 

 German who learned his fish culture in Germany. He came to 

 Covington and settled in a region where nature made it easy for 

 him to construct ponds, and the work was done at very small 

 cost, because he was fortunate enough to have the graders who 

 were making public improvements put their waste just where he 

 wanted it to make his dams. He had his ponds at different levels 

 and in connection with them he had a great ice-house. He could 

 ])ut his ice into the different floors of his ice-house almost with- 

 out expense. Then he used those ponds for the rearing of Jack 

 salmon, carp, bass, crappy, and a half dozen of other well-knowji 

 and excellent table fish. He allowed people to come there and 

 catch what they wanted at a reasonable fixed price. He was al- 

 ways ready to supply large quantities of fish and ice as well. I 

 merely mention this to show that even on a large scale, as Mr. 

 Schlosser conducted his business, it can be made extremely pro- 

 fitable. But the gTeat want is this little bit of information, and 

 I trnst that the Federal and State Commissions will publish in- 

 structions for making ponds, and give us pictures of the fish 

 that can be reared in tliose ponds, and describe, their food. Of 

 course I know that the United States Commission and some Fish 

 Commissions have done a great deal of this work, but there is 

 not enough of it, because if there were we would not have to go 

 to Indianapolis to get a yellow perch and then not lie able to eat 

 it. 



Dr. Henshall: I want to endorse every word in tlu' paper 

 just read, and to commend every one of the fishes mentioned. I 

 am very well acquainted with them. When I was President of 

 the Ohio Fish Commission years ago I introduced the marbled 

 catfish. We turned the carp out and substituted the marbled 

 catfish. It is a fish that grows fast, is very good for the table, 

 and will live in any pond that the carp will, and the car]i will 

 live in any kind of water, stagnant or otherwise. 



Mr. Titcomb : Is it what we call the speckled or channel cat- 

 fish in Mississippi? 



Dr. Henshall : Xo, it is the nebulosus. In regard to the 

 Warmouth, I have taken them up to three pounds in southern 

 waters. It belongs to the sunfish family, and is more nearly 



