58 TWENTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL MEETING 



ponds and troughs, fingerling fishes, adult fishes, adult fishes 

 of different varieties in comparison, all contribute to knowl- 

 edge of the people. Methods of transportation of fishes, 

 methods of feeding fishes, both young and adult, can be illus- 

 trated and explained. A live food box or "odorless maggot 

 box," which can be used on ponds both artificial or natural, 

 where artificial food is required, is here described in detail, 

 because I have never seen anything like it before. The object 

 of this box is to have a receptacle for waste meat, which, when 

 properly charged with fly larvae, can be placed in a floating 

 box tightly closed with a cover whose lids extend down into 

 the water. The bottom of the meat trays in the box are cov- 

 ered with coarse wire cloth, the odds and ends of old hatching 

 trays. Excelsior or straw is placed in the trays and then the 

 fly-blown meat laid on it. As the maggots hatch out, they 

 clean themselves in working through the excelsior and drop 

 into the water where the fish lie in wait for them. The parts 

 of this box consist of an outside frame which is merely a box 

 without a top or bottom placed upon floats. Two movable 

 trays are fitted into this frame on cleats, side by side. Two 

 small trays are used instead of one large one, so that the 

 meat can be renewed alternately, thus keeping a constant 

 source of supply of larvae. 



In illustrating the commercial fisheries of the country, their 

 importance can be explained by deductions from the follow- 

 ing table: 



