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|il;icr> ill ;iiiy stale — \\c will say aliiiosl anv slaU — which look 

 i;o()d at the (jiitsel i'ur trout culture — especially for trout culture 

 — Ijut which turn out to be deficient, because there isn't water 

 enougli ; and in some cases too much of the water is used for 

 industrial purposes. That is true in Xew York, and in order 

 to complicate matters still more all over tlie conntrv, this natural 

 scarcity of .uood liatchcry sites is siiiipleiiiented hy a natural de- 

 sire on the part of certain individuals to Force the location of a 

 hatchery into some site known to he unsuitalile for li,-h culture 

 l)ur])oscs hut (|uite suitable for liooniin^i:- real estate. This is a 

 ]u"acTical ditliculty which we cannot pass over li.uhllv. 



!n the ti'ans|»ortatioii ol' fish in New Voi-ls. there has been 

 a ii'ivat deal of trouble through defective car service. The stab' 

 has only one car — and 1 presume this will apply to other states 

 besides Xew York — the state bas one car, which is not a modern 

 car l)y any means, that is to say, it will simply carry fish in cans, 

 and bas an ice box — bas no means of circulatino- the water, or of 

 rciiulatino' tlu' temi)eralure. And such car, while it bas its uses, 

 of course, — is not to be despised l)y any means — is a little bit too 

 inadequate, it seems to me, for any 2,reat state to use at the 

 present time. 



Then there 1ms been consideral)le ditliculty of late in secur- 

 ing railroad transportation. This is not a general difficulty, but 

 we fear it is going to become general, through the o])position 

 to railroad nianagx'inent at present. We fear at least it Avill be- 

 come nim'e serious than it has been so far. 



The losses of eggs in transportation sometimes bave been 

 rather large and almost imaccountable, as well as the losses of 

 fish; and in some cases we have found we would be al)le to trace 

 the losses of eggs to defects either in the system of packing or 

 in the kind of nuiterial used in the ego; cases. Very often we 

 know Ibat inoss has bei'u used which is not Iborougbly washed 

 and prepared for the journey, and this moss, as you all know, in 

 oome instances, carries Ijactei'ia which iuiroduce disease into a 

 -tream. We bave bad such cases within the last year and a half, 

 ind we lia\(' to wat(h the nudter very closely on that account. 

 In other words, we have, to he very caretnl Irom whom we buy 

 goods and crates, and insist upon it that they shall he pro|).'rly 



