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of the fish and to call them by numbers ; and it seems to me that 

 this average size ought to be the midway size instead of being 

 either the smallest or largest fish that are designed by a number. 

 Suppose we call a fish one and one-half inches long, number one, 

 nd from one and a half to two and a half number two, making 

 the number the midway size of the fish, letting the average be 

 half each way. 



Mr. Meehan : My recollection was when we agreed upon 

 making numbers that way, namely, number one from one inch 

 up to two, and so on, was for the very reason that Mr. Keesecker 

 has stated — that we were speaking particularly of trout, and that 

 trout in a trough would vary in size in a very short time, from 

 one to two inches ; and therefore we took the number one as 

 representing the average fish, that is, from one inch to less than 

 two, and I consider it to be the fairest and best means of desig- 

 nation. Of course it was more particularly trout that we were 

 talking about, but we applied it to all fish. 



Mr. John L. Leary, San Marcos, Texas., (Supt. of Station) : 

 Our fish grow very fast and the term fingerlings does not apply 

 to our later fish at all. They ought to be called yearlings. But 

 I believe if we would say that fry and advanced fry should be the 

 designation given to fish up to one inch, and then for all from 

 one inch to two inches number one, and two inches to three num- 

 ber two, that that would be a better plan. 



Mr. Meehan : It is so stated. A fry is a fish with a sac on ; 

 it is an advanced fry when the sac is absorbed ; and it is less than 

 one inch in length; and it is number one when the fish is from 

 one to two inches long. 



Mr. E. X. Carter, St. Johnsbury, Vermont: I think we had 

 Ijetter make use of weights in connection with the numbers; for 

 instance call them 1, 4s, or, 1, 5s, the 5s designating the weight 

 of the fish, or something of that kind. I do not know what a 

 good bass of a certain size would weigh, but it seems to me it 

 would be easy to determine that by means of properly con- 

 structed scales, and we would know that the number one would 

 refer to a fish between the length of one inch and two inches, 

 and, as has already been pointed out, fish running from one to 



