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large number in a small pond, as there would in putting a 
large number of men in a small room. 
Mr. GREEN: Our streams can nearly all be improved by 
introducing food. My experience is, that when fish sicken 
most of them die. We bathe them with salt, and do many 
things, and once in a while save some. We have what we 
call a hospital, and go through operations and doctor them, 
and sometimes save them. 
Mr. Marner: In regard to moving fish at spawning-time 
I can give my experiences. I had two hundred fish ready to 
spawn. I removed them to a fitting locality, and they never 
spawned. I have moved the fish from one locality to another 
about the spawning-season, and found that these fish were 
barren. I would advise persons who wish to distribute 
fish) not. toi do: it just’ about>the aime they fare’ going ae 
spawn. 
Mr. GREEN: The grayling I spoke of had spawned. 
Mr. MatHer > »Those? 1 refer: tevhad ‘notispawned: > age 
next year I took the spawn from the living fish, and I think 
I can bear out Mr. Green’s assertion there again that they 
will not live after they have spawned. 
Mr. Green: We are hatching the frost-fish, too. Some 
four men have taken some hundred thousand of them. We 
hatch them the same as whitefish. 
THe Presipent: Would Professor Milner give us the 
scientific name of the frost-fish? 
(Some smelts were brought in from Fulton Market.) 
Mr. Mitner: That is the smelt—the fresh-water smelt. 
The President asked whether it is Mr. Milner’s opinion 
that the Raritan smelt is the same as the fresh water one. 
Mr. Mitner: I would not like to say that. 
Mr. BLAcKrorp: We have at the market smelts that come 
