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(Uiim, l)Ut 1(1 praise. 1 think [hv \\>>vk that has liceii doiK- hy tlic states 

 and hy (he l-'ederal (iovernnient has lieen the yreatest work ever done, 

 hnt wliat I am sure all of ns would like to see is e(.in)inuous, uninter- 

 rui)ted, close study of this suhjeet which is so \ital to the results of 

 puhlic lish culture. Why dcMi't the specialists, the pathologists and hac 

 tcriologists go on with their studies? Why are they switched off to 

 some work other than that for which they are prepared? The only 

 reason I can see is that the federal sinvernment and the state govern- 

 ments will not pay a li\ing wage. 



Thi.> very throat tumor that you all know ahout is in California now; 

 perhaps it came from there; Ave do not know anything ahout lli;:t ; it 

 luay have come along with the rainhow trout; it may travel with the 

 eggs; it may he that the eggs we are l)uying from comnnrcial hatcheries 

 are taken from fish which have had this disease, and their progeny 

 will continue to he subject to it, that is to say, they will be prone to it, 

 and more likely than not will suffer from the attacks of these injurious 

 bacteria which may be present in all the waters. We know nothing 

 about it, and I for one wish that the men who are able to investigate 

 and to reconuiiend would go on investigating and recommending until 

 we stop this dreadful loss to the states and the federal government. 



Here is a luier from California that 1 recei\ ed only recently, about 

 brook trout obtained irom the Sisson b.atchery, one of the state hatch- 

 eries of California. Here the tunK)r disease has developed, though 

 perhaps not recognized in Ccalifornia before. Would not this seem to 

 indicale that we are sending it out with the eggs, perhaps spreading 

 it broadcast? We cannot afford to rest on our oars, and say, "Oh. 

 that is not our affair." It is my affair, it is your affair. The American 

 iMsheries .S(>ciety and all fish culturists. in fact, are in duty bound, it 

 seems to me. to ask fiu" inform.ation though we may not always get 

 it. but if we keep on asking and investigating we will succeed, just 

 like the story dear old Professor Mason used to tell about the little 

 bird that in time of storm lit on a great ship. There was no laud near 

 by. and it took refuge on a mast of the ship, and eventually found its 

 v^ay to the deck, where it was cared feu* until land was sighted; then 

 it was liberated; and so its jioor little life was saved. The moral is 

 (this story is supposed to ha\e been written by a boy of ten) "If you 

 don't get what you want at first, just keep on trying, and you will get 

 it by and by." T think if we keep on urging the matter and show the 

 necessity which we all recognize, we will find an improvement before 

 many years. 



AIk. Chaki-KS W. TU-kxh.vm ; There arc two jiossible causes for these 

 diseases that 1 have not heard mentioned. One is the condition of 

 the food. It may be too old or in some other way unlit and thus brint; 

 on disease. Another is the (|uanti(y (^f food. Overfeeding may induce 

 disease. Some attention sliould be given to these points. 



