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like the plan sug-gestetl l)y Dr. Bartlett would be better, but the 

 present plan suits us in ^Eichioan very nieel^y. 



Chairman : You chairman wants to say a word or two. I 

 have looked this audience over here, and it is larger than some of 

 the American Fishery Society meetings that I have attended. I 

 am glad to see so many, and I notice that there are present here 

 seventeen practical fish culturists. This of course includes Mr. 

 Meehan, which is a little doul)tful but we will let it pass. (Great 

 laughter.) Now of those seventeen, they have l)een working on 

 this basis of number one, two, three, etc. Xow ]u)w numy of 

 those seventeen are dissatisfied with the present plan ? 1 would 

 just like to know for the sake of argument. 1 will ask all to hold 

 up their lumds that are dissatisfied with the present ])lan. 



A vote was then taken wliich showed eiglit to five in favor of 

 the present plan. 



Dr. Bartlett : 1 submit to the majority. 



Mr. Clark : Of course this is going to be finally left to the 

 committee, hut 1 would just like to ask why this would not be a 

 good plan to get at what the doctor wants : 



Xuml)er ones: I14 inch. 



Xumher ones: 1% inch. 



Xmnber ones: 1% inch. 



Then number two: 2 inches, 2i/£. inches, and 2% inches, and 

 so on. AVhy is not some such plan as that best? 



Mr. E. E. Eace, Superintendent, Green Lake, Me. : Why 

 add more to our arduous duties, without giving us better results ? 

 Why have six or seven designations instead of those we already 

 have ? In other words, if the designations now are for bass only, 

 I do not kno^\■ how it works; but for brook trout and salmon, 

 land-locked, it would be impossible to weigh them at this season 

 because they would die before transporting them five miles from 

 the station. I have thought the thing over very carefully for sev- 

 eral vears, and it seems to me that tlie way it is now arranged, 

 for all ])ractical purposes, both for the bureau and stations, it 

 will be very hard to improve. It might be of advantage for some 

 localities, but take it as a whole it would he very unwise to 

 chano-e it. 



