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of the fishes secured through our rescue work ? And who 

 is better able to undertake this work than the Federal 

 Government with its facilities for learning the habits and 

 needs of the numerous fishes found here? 



Would it not be possible to so arrange matters that 

 this whole water system would be placed under the au- 

 thority of the Federal Government and the various states 

 would cease to exercise control ? The government is taking 

 charge of the birds that fly from one state to another. 

 Why should it not take charge of the fishes that swim 

 freely from one state to another? 



This is brought up not to inform those here of any- 

 thing which they did not know before but to direct at- 

 tention again to this matter which is becoming of real 

 interest to those living along the valley of the Mississippi. 



