use of one, will in the future find it to be valuable agricultural 

 property. We shall breed domestic varieties of fish as we do of 

 pigs or poultry. Some of the European peoples are doing this 

 now. At present we are stocking our lakes and streams with 

 game fish for sportsmen. As competition increases, however, 

 we must stock the ponds in the same spirit as we stock our 

 pastures. We have passed the hunting stage with cattle and 

 sheep. We shall then come to a scientific development and 

 utilization of water fields. We shall not allow people to poison 

 and pollute the ponds and lakes any more than the wheat fields. 

 After we stock the ponds and streams with young fish, we shall 

 provide ways whereby they may live and thrive, the same as 

 we till and fertilize corn or any other crop. This means the 

 development of natural fish forage and also such control as 

 will maintain the balance of nature. We know practically 

 nothing about fish forage and the means of growing it in 

 streams and lakes. We have established experiment stations 

 for land crops, but not for water crops. The first scientific 

 study of these questions in this country from an agricultural point 

 of view, has now been established in this College of Agriculture 

 (the professorship supplied from other than State funds) . We 

 have had to invent a name. We call it the Department of 

 Limnology. The headquarters are in this building, but a labora- 

 tory and breeding station is in the marshes at the head of the 

 lake. There is now on foot a movement to impound waters in 

 the Adirondack region. Whenever waters are impounded, the 

 possibilities of making them breeding grounds for food fish 

 should also be considered. It is probable that other aquatic 

 animals than fish, or semi-aquatic ones, will be regularly grown 



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