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in the River Delaware, where the U. S. Fish Com- 
mission first planted fry, they were dumped in at high 
waier. But of late years they have been putting them 
up in the headwaters of the stream where the young 
fry naturally go. The result has been that there has been 
a great increase. The value of that shad taken in the 
Delaware River in 1881 amounted to $80,000, and in 
1890 and 1891 between $500,000 and $600,000, show- 
ing a great increase and very satisfactory. I am no 
advocate of keeping young shad until they are large; 
I think putting them in ponds deprives them of their 
natural food. 
Mr. Rocers of Nova Scotia—I have been intensely 
interested in the various papers to which I have listened 
to-day, particularly on the subject of fry versus finger- 
lings; and on fish food. Any knowledge I possess on 
the subject is entirely practical. I live in a fish country, 
and we have been tor the last fifteen or sixteen years 
planting salmon. We have been conducting under ‘tie 
government fishculture on a pretty large scale. In Nova 
Scotia where I reside, many millions of salmon fry have 
been planted, and the results up to the present time have 
been very small. I am decidedly in favor of fishculture. 
Its possibilities are practically unlimited; there is no 
question about that. 
I want to relate two or three facts in relation to fish 
after the fry planting, which will be of importance, I 
think. I communicated some of them some years ago 
to Professor Goode of Washington. He was here this 
morning. 
I spent my childhood, my boyhood and manhood, close 
to a small river running into the country about thirty 
miles. When I was a boy we could buy a thirty-pound 
salmon for twenty-five cents; the river was literally 
crowded with fish. In process of time, across the 
mouth of the river, it was a common thing to see three 
or four hundred salmon dead, as a result of slaughter by 
