FISH-CULTURAL PRACTICES IN THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 757 



•duced only in comparatively small numbers. The Bureau does not attempt 

 to assign any applicant more than a liberal brood stock of the basses or sun- 

 fishes. With brook trout, which are distributed both as fry and fingerlings, 

 assignments of fry are twenty-five to fifty times larger than assignments of 

 fingerlings 3 to 4 inches long. 



Applicants for fish are advised by mail of the approximate date on which 

 the fish will be shipped and later by wire of the hour on which they may be 

 expected to arrive. The advance mail notice also contains the specific instruc- 

 tions for the care of the fish from the time of delivery until they are planted. 



