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if \oii fill our lakes with car]) you stock the hikes w itii hogs ami 

 do more harm than you ever did <;ood : hut our answer to that is, 

 we always shoulder it onto the L'nited States h'ish Commission. 



(Lnuohter.) 



In our state there is a U)t of marsh)-, rccd\-, shallow water, 

 humlreds and ])erhaps thousands of acres, and on the Hats, within 

 two miles of where I rLside. at .Madison, there arc countless 

 millions of carp, and the hsliermen all say, when the\- hear them 

 feeding^, there is a lot of hog's, because when they are feeding they 

 make as nnich of a rustle as a drove of hogs would. (Laughter.) 



We are coming tt) find out that the fish have a special use, 

 and do not diminish the other species of fish. 1 don't know 

 whether the ])eople livmg alwut the two lakes have carp, but 

 they have pike fishing — wall-eyed pike and bass fishing. In our 

 second lake there are all kinds of water, shallow water and deep, 

 and they have the black and yellow bass, as the Oswego bass 

 have a yellow hue. The hsh are very al)undant, notwitiistanding 

 a third of the lake, perhaps, is populated with carp thicker than 

 Ptkin is with Chinamen. 



Dr. James: It is a fish the\ have a good word for in Xew 

 Jersey, but I will say this: that Xew Jerse\- has brit one special 

 fish and game warden, who appoints others under him, and for 

 the State of Xew Jersey that works admirably. This superintend- 

 ent sees that the laws are enforced, and every month he pub- 

 lishes a little pamphlet, in which he puts down every infringe- 

 ment of every law, and sends out this booklet, and that has a 

 good effect and a good influence in keeping the people from 

 !)reaking the law. ( )ur s\stem in Pemis\ivania is not so good, 

 because we depend on the constable, and 1 think .\ew York has 

 ■somethinu- of that kind — verv much the same svstem a? ours. 



