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tives, and we trust New York and other States will fol- 
low suit in the near future. Our trout are all artificially 
reared from the egg, in artificially made ponds and on 
artificial food which we buy, and we pay a tax not only 
on our plant but also on our trout as stock in trade, and 
the law declares them to be our absolute property. 
Under these conditions we feel that we are entitled to 
the same property rights in trout at all seasons of the 
year that every class of property that is useful to man as 
a food product has, namely, the right to sell it at any 
and at all times when it is desirable to do so, and that 
our customers and ourselves shall be the judge of when 
that time is and not the State. Remove the restrictions 
from the sale of cultivated trout from January 15 to April 
1, and people now in the business will enlarge their estab- 
lishments to their utmost extent to meet the largely in- 
creased demand, and others will be induced to enter into 
the industry to such an extent that ten years hence fifty 
pounds will be raised annually where one is now, thus 
giving employment and wealth to the people engaged in 
the industry, taxation to the towns and State, and the 
advantage of having this additional amount of food fishes 
added to the food product of the country during the lat- 
ter part of the winter, when nearly every kind of fish is 
scarce and often in poor condition, while cultivated trout 
are in fine order. It is an old adage that he who makes 
two blades of grass grow where one grew before is a 
public benefactor, and it must be admitted that he who 
makes ten thousand to twenty thousand pounds of trout 
grow annually where none grew before is also a public 
benefactor, and if restrictions against the sale are removed 
or modified, large tracts of now waste land and water 
will become valuable for the cultivation of ‘trout, and the 
expectations of Dr. Garlick, Dr. Ackley, Ainsworth, 
Seth Green, Livingston Stone, Theodore Lyman and 
other early disciples of fishculture will be realized, much 
valuable property created annually, many persons bene- 
