170 Thirfij-serrulli AidiikiI Meeting 



Mr. Bower: We might make one more subdivision anil lu'lp 

 the doctor out a good deal in his work in this way : 



Make number one cover fish from 1 to li^ inclies in k-ngth; 

 tlien, 1 plus, fish from II/2J ii"'ches to 2 inches; then let numl)er 

 2 cover fish from 3 to 3V2 inches; and 2 plus cover fish from 3i/> 

 inches to 3 inches in length, and so on. That is simple. Just 

 add "plus" for the last half inch and leave it off for the first half 

 inch. 



Mr. Race : In the station where I am located we have a large 

 number of fish. In one pond are fish four to five inches long, 

 and in another pond the fish are smaller, though they are of the 

 same age, and might be designated as number one while the oth- 

 ers and fours. If the fish were all uniform in size it miglit be 

 possible that it would be advantageous to make the change, but 

 when we have so great a variation in the different ponds it seems 

 to me it is impossible to improve on the present plan. 



Mr. Qharles G. Atkins, East Orland, Me. : I wish to second 

 what Mr. Eace says, that if you su))divide the fish any more you 

 increase very greatly the difiiculty of estimating their sizes. We 

 cannot stop and measure tliem. We have got to look into the 

 water and guess at them ; and it seems to me when they are 

 arranged as they are now, that the guessing is about as close as 

 we can make it, and about as near as we can get at it. 



Mr. Carter: Up at St. Johnsbury we screen our fish. At 

 Arlington where we raise fish we have a series of screens of vari- 

 ous sizes. Mr. J. P. Schneider started this thing over at Arling- 

 ton, and we have our fish in a trough, may be 2,000, 3,000, 4,000, 

 or 5,000, whatever they are, and we start one screen at one end 

 and one at the other end, and work one screen to the center, and 

 commence at the head of the trough and work the other screen 

 towards that; and you will be surprised to find how equally we 

 can sort the fish out into two sizes. In a short timi- you can sort 

 a great many thousand fish without injury to any single fish. 



Mr. W. T. Thompson, of Leadville, Colo., (Supt. of Sta- 

 tion) : I want to say a word about the measuring of fish. Of 

 course when we have had any rule in force for a wliile we are 

 likely to find the little weakness in it. Some one presents a new 



