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streamsalone last season. It was reported through the press 
that 5,000 brook trout were taken from the streams in 
the vicinity of Sparta, Monroe County, the first day of 
the open season this year. 
It seems to me if the ‘‘ Badgers” had to depend on 
my friend, Clark’s plan of stocking a stream with from 
one hundred to five hundred fingerlings, that they would 
go fish hungry after the first day’s fishing for the remain- 
der of the season or until such time as the stream was 
replenished. 
The people of the State of Wisconsin are well satisfied 
with the results obtained by planting fry. The only 
trouble is we cannot hatch enough of them to supply the 
demand, as Wisconsin is fast becoming a great resort for 
summer tourists during the fishing season. 
I hope that the next annual meeting of the Fisheries 
Society will be held in Chicago, and at a season of the 
year when all those who are engaged in fishculture will 
be able to attend. Those who may have time and wish 
to take a short season of recreation and enjoy a few days’ 
fishing, I will take pleasure in accompanying them to 
some of our famous trout streams, that they may view 
for themselves what has been accomplished in our State 
by stocking the streams with fry. 
I enclose herewith a letter from the Hon. J. S. Bugh, 
County Judge of Waushara County, which speaks for 
itself for the success of stocking the streams of our State 
with fry. If we thought it necessary at this late day in 
the work of fishculture to offer further proof of our suc- 
cess in stocking streams with fry, we could furnish a 
thousand just such letters: 
Mr. Jas. Nevin, Wautoma, Wis., May 17th, 1892. 
Supt. of Fisheries, 
My Dear Sir: Madison, Wis. 
I have received your letter of the 14th inst., in which 
you ask me, first, to give you ‘an estimate of the num- 
