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of the law of ISC)!) eoneerniug free passage. But as soon as the 

 agitators insisted on a further application of their other resolu- 

 tions they were then secretly opposed hy all the comhined forces 

 and by the traditional red tape of the Agricultural Department. 

 The department greatly resented tlieir initiative, was horrified by 

 their audacity and nearly lost its temper at the possible necessity 

 of having to awake out of its pleasant inactivity. Therefore, 

 instead of facilitating the committee's work, the department em- 

 ployed every device that might wear out its energy or discourage 

 its efforts. The committee's case, however, is fortunately so 

 good, and its members are so strong, as to exclude the possibility 

 of a final check. Public attention has at last been aroused, and 

 is not likely to permit so important a question to be shelved any 

 longer. There can, in fact, be no doubt that in due time the 

 committee will get the best of this strange and unexpected con- 

 flict, to the great advantage of the Loire and the welfare of the 

 district, for which the salmon fisheries represent a consideral)le 

 interest, if it is true, as the committee thinks and asserts, that 

 the annual produce of salmon, which for the Loire basin only 

 amounts still to some £50,000 or £60,000, ($243,500 or $267,- 

 850) could be easily advanced to £1,000,000 ($4,870,000) 

 3'early. 



F i s h C ti I tur al Prog r ess i n Argent l n a . 



Our enterprising sister republic at the extreme southern end 

 of the western hemisphere has reason to be gratified at the re- 

 sults of the recent introduction of American fish and fish cul- 

 turists, of M'hich the Society has been duly informed. On the 

 occasion of the visit of Mr. Boot, Secretary of State, to South 

 America last winter, he was given a banquet in Buenos Aires at 

 which American brook trout Avere served. These had been 

 hatched from eggs sent from this country in 1903, as already 

 noted in the Proceedings of the Society. 



Mr. E. A. Tulian, national fish culturist, writes that trout 

 commenced spawning a month earlier in 1907 than in 1906, the 

 first eggs being collected on April 27. June 10 he had collected 

 over 200,000 brook trout eggs, nearly all from pond fish, as there 

 were no suitahle nets to catch the wild trout from the streams. 

 Within a day or two after the date of his letter, it was expected 



