EIGHTH ANNUAL MEETING. 59 
business, and to check the decline in prices of fish culturists’ pro- 
ducts, which was then going on very rapidly, and which fore- 
shadowed the disastrous results to the business which soon 
after followed. As soon, however, as the first.annual meeting 
of the Association was held, it was apparent that its future ef- 
forts were to be directed to the promotion of the public good 
rather than to the furtherance of private interests. This happy 
change was at once cheerfully accepted by all, and the subject 
of regulating the tariff of prices was only once mentioned, I 
believe, and then dropped forever. 
I shall be unable to attend the meeting of the A. F.C. A. 
this year, but hope to next year. 
Very truly yours, 
LIVINGSTON STONE. 
As the opinion of Mr. Stone on the original idea of the 
founders of the Association fully accords with the views ex- 
pressed in the beginning of this paper, it is gratifying to note 
how soon these views began to expand and leave the original 
narrow plan entirely, until it gradually passed into oblivion. 
With its record of usefulness in the past, when with but a 
few members it struggled into existence as a sort of an append- 
age to a Poultry Breeders’ Association (now no longer in ex- 
istence), who is able to forecast its future when its membership 
is tenfold its present numbers, and when it is publicly acknowl- 
edged to be, what its friends now consider it, one of the most use- 
ful, honorable, and public-spirited Associations in the world? 
Mr. Annin showed a box with flannel trays, on which he 
had brought spawn to Connecticut a day or two ago. 
Mr. Mather exhibited a photogram of one of the boxes in 
which he took half a million of salmon-eggs to Europe last 
October. 
A resolution was offered returning thanks to the Fulton 
Market Fish Mongers’ Association for the use of the room, 
which was readily endorsed. 
