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Tcferred to wore lar<ii' enough and deep enough ; but you will find 

 many wall-eyed pike in the shallow waters of the upper Ohio, as 

 you will find them in the Muskingum and Scioto rivers. I have 

 seen the preserved heads of immense fish from the Oliio river, 

 but they don't exist there now. The Kentucky river used to be 

 famous for them, but since dams have been put in that river, the 

 large fish have disappeared. You Avill find in the upper Ohio 

 .and tributaries, today plenty of wall-eyed pike. In regard to 

 ponds, I only know them in the pond Dr. Bean speaks of, and J 

 •can endorse what he says in relation to that. 



]\Ir. Seymour Bower : I would like to endorse all that has 

 Ijeen said by the Doctor and others on this paper, which I con- 

 sider very valuable. Jt does not cover very much ground, l)ut it 

 is right to the point, and it is certainly very suggestive. I think 

 that most of the states pay hardly enough attention to the propa- 

 gation and distribution of the common fishes. In our state we 

 liave hundreds and liuiidreds of small ponds and lakes, mostly 

 private waters of a quarter to one-half an acre and up to three 

 and four acres in extent. We have many applications for fish for 

 such ponds. Years ago we took care of them with car]) — there 

 was quite a furore over carp twenty years ago. Almost every 

 farmer had a carp pond in his front yard, back yard or barn 

 yard, or somewhere; l)ut there is little demand for carp now. It 

 :seems to me this paper is valuable because it gives information 

 indicating how the owners of these small ponds may produce 

 good fish at a very small expense. Of course in our state we can- 

 not supply such fish ourselves, because we are prohibited from 

 furnishing fish for ])rivate ponds, except carp, which we do not 

 propagate, but it seems to me that onr Commission and others 

 might easily build some ])onds of their own for experimental 

 purposes, so that th(\v could at least give out the necessary infor- 

 mation. I ventun' to say we have, accumulated in out- offices, 

 from 500 to 1,000 or more applications received during the past 

 four years, for catfish, sunfish, rock bass and perch, and other 

 ■common varieties that we do not propagate. 



Secretary: I have found a couple of papers that relate t > 

 the article of Mr. Bartlett of Illinois on the carp, lie allude.l 

 to having written to the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, haviir^- licard 

 that thev serve cart), to fiiul out if it was a fact, and he bad aii 



