26 Thirty-fifth Annual Meeting 
Now it is very surprising to think that you can take the eggs of a 
50-pound rock bass and fertilize them with the milt of the herr- 
ing, or the opposite, though, of course, with that class of fish it 
is almost impossible to carry your experiments to a conclusion, 
because the fish are liberated as fry and go to the ocean. But 
we want to take up this subject of hybridization on a larger scale, 
cross the inferior species perhaps with some finer ones, and rear 
the fish to see if we can get any results by continual attempts 
at crossing. 
Then this committee wants to take up some other subjects. 
This will apply more to the commercial hatcheries such as im- 
provement by selection. We would like reports on what has 
been done by commercial breeders, breeding for increase on egg 
production, breeding for resistance or immunity to disease. 
There is a large field in those directions, and the data on what 
has been done in the past are very limited. 
The committee appointed by this association consists, besides 
the chairman, of Mr. Seymour Bower, of Detroit; Mr. C. A. 
Vogelsang, of San Francisco; Mr. Charles G. Atkins, of East 
Orland, Me.; Mr. C. C. Wood, of Plymouth, Mass.; Mr. H. M. 
Smith, of Washington, D. C.; Mr..W. J. Moenkhaus, of Bloom- 
ington, Ind.; Mr. A. D. Mead, of Providence, Rhode Island; Mr. 
H. J. Wolf, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Dr. George W. 
Field, of Boston, Massachusetts. 
Mr. Meehan: Do I understand you to say that there was 
successful fertilization between the rock-fish or striped bass and 
the herring ? 
Mr. Titcomb: Yes sir. 
Mr. Clark: By what association was this committee ap- 
pointed ? 
Mr. Titcomb: Appointed by the American Breeders’ Asso- 
elation which really originated in the Department of Agriculture. 
The association advised this committee, and I think this ‘society 
ought to co-operate with it in every way they can. 
Prof. Reighard: That is a committee of the Breeders’ 
Association and not of this society. 
