110 Thirty-fourth Annual Meeting. 
a number of years we had a serious epidemic at the Paris 
hatchery ; but we are not losing many trout there at the present 
time from disease. We do lose from 10 to 20 per cent every year 
as the result of handling during the spawning season. Our old 
foreman had grown slack, the ponds were filthy, we could not get 
him to take as good care of the fish and ponds as we thought 
they ought to have, and we made a change. Our present foreman 
is and always has been very cleanly, but aside from that I do not 
know that anything special has been done. We feed liver the 
same as we always did, but we do not lose fish by epidemic. We 
raise them to be 5 to 6 to 7 years old, and there they are to-day- 
We have very little loss from disease; our loss results from 
handling during the spawning season; but we raise quite a num- 
ber each year to offset this loss. In that way we hold the stock to 
about the capacity of our water supply, which is more or less 
limited. 
I was pleased to have Mr. Worth call attention to the trout 
hatcheries in Massachusetts, for it is a good deal of a mystery 
to me how they can handle the number of trout they do in the 
hmited amount of water they have. Take the American Fish 
Culture Company, for example. I was told by our president that 
last summer they sold 46,000 pounds of trout, and besides that 
they are sellmg a number of millions of eggs every year. 
We do not think much of cement ponds, still you go down to 
Massachusetts and find one concern using cement ponds, and 
another 4,000,000 or 5,000,000 eggs a year with not over 500 
gallons of water a minute. As Mr. Dooley says, “There you 
a-a-re.” 
It seems to me 1f I were in Mr. Whish’s place, I would go 
down to Massachusetts and look the situation over, and if possi- 
ble hire some of the men who have worked so successfully for 
many years, and at least allow them to try their methods with 
your conditions. If not successful then the conditions are at 
fault. 
Dr. Greene: Being a medical man I am familiar with 
diseases, and it appears to me that these trout are sick; and that 
that has been the condition right along; and this sickness is a 
filth disease, and the result of getting away from nature’s good 
