18 FISH CULTURAL ASSOCIATION, 
Cooperstown, March to, 1880. 
Mr. SetH Green—Again I am happy to say that the 100,000 
salmon-trout you sent us were successfully put into our lake 
(Otsego). And again I sincerely thank you for your personal 
attention to our order. We have but little trouble now in rais- 
ing funds to pay the expense of getting fish. A few years ago 
it was different, but when you convince the people that restock-. 
ing lakes, rivers, and streams again with fish is surely a success, 
there is little trouble in raising funds to pay expenses. I would 
like to have some one tell me in what way a person can invest a 
few dollars better to benefit the poor than to put in a lake suit- 
able for them 100,000 trout.. Toshow you, two men on our lake 
two weeks ago, both fishing in a little shanty, caught twenty- 
three trout that weighed over sixty pounds; one of them weigh- 
ed eight pounds. At fifteen cents per pound, for which they sell 
readily, you have $4.50 for each man for his day’s work. This 
is only one instance of the kind. Last June two men out of one 
boat caught forty-three trout that weighed eighty-four pounds, 
in one day. A little over a year ago myself and wife caught out 
of one boat in one day seventeen trout that weighed fifty-six 
pounds ; one weighed six pounds and nine ounces, and my wife 
caught that. Now these are all facts I know to be SO. 
So again I would ask in what way the people of this country 
could invest money for the benefit of the poor that will do them 
more good than by restocking our waters with fish ? Poor people, 
as a rule, are most all fishermen, and when they are out of work, 
or after their day’s work is done, take their hook and line and in 
a short time catch a meal, although but a small amount is invest- 
ed by them in fishing-tackle. My experience has been, give a 
boy a good strong cord and a good-sized hook to match, and a 
fifteen-foot beech-pole, and he will land you more fish with less 
trouble in a day than all the fancy tackle and fancy rod and ex- 
pert fishermen can land in a week. 
There is no danger of a famine in this country. We have in 
the village of Cooperstown a great many families that get the 
ereatest part of their living from fishing, and so it is all over the 
country. 
While travelling through the southern part of the state of 
