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matter of the scientific feeding of fish. I was obliged to decline to 

 prepare a paper at this time, because I did not have opportunity to do 

 it, but the subject assigned me is one in which I am very much interested, 

 though on which I am very ignorant. I wish to say, however, in con- 

 nection with this report of the Committee on Foreign Relations, that 

 the European countries seem to be far ahead of us in the production 

 of fish food, in natural or artificial ponds, and that we are very 

 ignorant on the subject of the scientific feeding of fish or the feeding 

 of fish with artificial food. We do not know how much nourishment 

 the fish get from the various kinds of food with which we supply them, 

 especially the trout. The agriculturalists of this country today know 

 more about feeding their cows ; the scientific farmer knows where he 

 gets the most milk and what it costs to feed, and all that sort of thing, 

 a great deal more than we do about feeding fish. I merely bring this 

 up in connection with this report, because I hope it is a subject which 

 will interest more fish culturists as well as the scientists. 



