158 Fortieth Annual Meeting 



minnows, etc. The water was hot, and if the distance from 

 the pond to the river had not been short, the work could not 

 have been done successfully. Estimating the bass at one- 

 half pound each, the bream and crappie at one-quarter pound 

 each, the catfish at ten to the pound, and the carp and buffalo 

 at one pound each, there were rescued and transferred to the 

 river a total of several thousand pounds of iish, which with 

 another season's growth and their natural increase will have 

 added materially to the supply. On August 18th, 120,000 

 small catfish were taken from flats in the same locality and 

 transferred to the rivers. 



The possibilities of the work are great, but they can be 

 developed only with equipment specially designed for the 

 work, and at present only where the distance to be covered 

 in transit is not too great. Some method will have to be 

 devised to overcome the difficulties presented before the 

 field can be fully covered. But I believe the time will come 

 when the work will be taken up in all the states, where 

 similar conditions exist, to conserve the natural resources 

 of the waters for the benefit of the people. 



