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inches long np to three inches, a number two fingerling, and so 

 on. Xow you take a fish one inch long and compare it with a 

 fish one and seven-eighths inches long, hoth are number one 

 fingerlings, but there is too much discrepancy in the size. You 

 can transport twice as many, I can safely say, of the one-inch 

 fish, as you can carry of the fish one and seven-eighths inches in 

 length. You take the two-inch fisli as compared with tlie fisli 

 two and seven-eighths inches in length (1 merely use those fig- 

 ures for illustration) and you will find the same discrepancy. It 

 is difficult to make up a table. For instance you cannot say that 

 vou will carry a definite nund)or of inunber one fingerling or 

 number two fingerling to a regulation transportation can of wa- 

 ter, because there is such a tremendous difference in the size. 

 Here is a fish called a number three fingerling which is a trout 

 three and seven-eighths inches in length, which I exhibit to you. 

 Here is another three inches in length. One fish which I exhibit 

 will weigh three times what this st'cond fish will weigh, yet they 

 are l)()tli numl)cr three fingerlings. You take the number one 

 and there is more ditt'crence jjroportionately in weight between 

 the iunnl)er one which is an inch long and the numljer one wliich 

 is one and seven-eighths inches in length. It seems to me we 

 have got to have some internu^diatc nund)ering or half nundier.- 

 to properly designate our fish in order to tell what Ave are dis- 

 tributing. Y"ou tell a nuin he is getting number three finger- 

 lings and they may be three and seven-eighths inches long, but 

 he expects a thousand number three, and you cannot carry of 

 that size more than one hundred and twenty-five to a can, where- 

 as of the fish just three inches long you can carry three hundred 

 or even four hundred. 1 should like to have that committee take 

 that (luestiou u]) and thresh it out and take for illustration these 

 fish wbieh \ exhibit to you. 



President: If there is no objection this question of renam- 

 ing of fishes, such as are artificially cultivated, with reference 

 to their size, will l)e referred to the same committee, with in- 

 structions to report at the next meeting. 



.Mr. Frank N. Clark, Northville. :\[ieh.: 1 think I was one 

 of that committee, but we were discluirged as I understood it. 



