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this summer by Mr. H. V. Wells) "and j^ame in [uoportion. and I had 

 fought and killed him, it would have taken just siv months to rec(ner 

 from the excitement." TheCIendon brook is posted its entire len^^'-th 

 and the people are interested in protecting the fr}' that have been de- 

 posited therein by the United States Fish Commission. I trust that 

 you will receive the salmon in good order. I send but one of the 

 smaller size, as the other and larger salmon gave no kind of show to 

 take the hook. A. N. Cheney. 



These salmon were seven or eiglit inches long, showing that 

 they had lived there, and were about ready to g.o to sea that 

 fall'. 



Mr. Fairbank. — Mr. President and gentlemen, I thouglit it 

 might be of interest to say a word or two, to the gentlemen here 

 in relation to the matter of planting fish in waters where thev 

 are not indigenous. We have made very great strides in artifi- 

 cial ]-)ropagation of fish, and have mastered all the difficulties of 

 hatching fish, procuiing the eggs, hatching and obtaining the 

 young fry, and a great deal of work and a great deal of money 

 has been expended in planting fish in various waters in all of 

 the States. We started off with a degree of enthusiasm eight 

 or ten years ago, that was worthy of a better outcome than we 

 have had, but it was done with more zeal than wisdom I think. 

 We have planted shad, for instance, ^in the Calumet river here, 

 which empties into Lake Michigan, and we have planted trout 

 in the Kankakee river and brook trout in the streams of Iowa, 

 and lake salmon in all the little lakes in Michigan and Illinois, 

 and wherever there was a little stream we thought at that time 

 all we had to do was to hatch the fish and put the voung frv in 

 there and we would have an abundance of fish. It is needless 

 to say, at least I have not heard of anv instance where anv of 

 these efforts have been successful, i was anxious to demon- 

 strate the fact, and I decided to make an experiment in Lake 

 Geneva, Wisconsin, which I did on a large enough scale to de- 

 monstrate thoroughly whether it was practicable. Lake Cieneva 

 is a lake al)out eight miles long and from half a mile to three 

 miles wide. It is a very pure b(jdy of water, as blue as Lake 

 Michigan. It is 185 feet deep. I have found in some places, but it 

 averages 100 feet deep all over it, b(;kl shores and verv clean. 



