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course the more valuable any of these fishes become to 
us as articles of commerce, the greater the desire of 
those who fish to obtain these better varieties. 
It seems to me that this is a subject that ought to be 
taken into consideration not only by the different States 
and by those who are in the habit of making fish culture 
part of their business or their pleasure we may say, but 
that it ought to be in some way encouraged by the gov- 
ernment. There are out in the Rocky Mountains, many 
of the streams off in the mountain districts that are not 
yet well known and uninhabited, that ought to be stocked 
with fish. In stocking these fish, this subject of prepar- 
ing food for them, or the kind of food on which they can 
survive, ought to go hand in hand. There are thousands 
and thousands of persons who are dependent on the 
internal fish supply away off in the interior of our coun- 
try, which supply can only be kept up by stocking the 
streams and lakes which have their sources in the Rocky 
Mountains and the other mountains north and south. 
And.the government really should, it seems to me, take 
this whole matter into consideration, and while it is 
transplanting the eggs of different kinds of fish that will 
survive in those waters, they should make a general law 
which would not only stock them, but supply the proper 
kind of food. Out in those waters in the Rocky Moun- 
tains, where there is nothing else but rocks in some 
places, there must be some sort of material ‘supplied 
such has been suggested by this paper. Those of you 
who have been there will have noticed the contrast 
between the rich, luxuriant growth we have here in the 
East, where there is a great amount of moisture, where 
there is a great supply of those kinds of flies, insects and 
other animals, which are not to be found out there. 
Some varieties of this food probably could not be trans- 
planted, but certainly there are some which would grow 
there and flourish. But of course there is no use placing 
them there until the fish have been grown and transplanted. 
