NINTH ANNUAL MEETING. 59 
Notwithstanding the diffusion of information concerning the 
results of restocking depleted rivers with salmon and shad ; ponds, 
lakes, and streams, with bass, and brooks with trout, through the 
medium of the now widely circulated Forest and Stream, Chicago 
Field, and Sea World, and the Reports of the State and United 
States Fish Commissioners, the general public still profess great 
ignorance upon the subject. The press of the country, with few 
exceptions, fail to promulgate pertinent facts, and the legisla- 
tures of most of the states refuse to appropriate other than paltry 
sums in aid of. this important interest. 
The chief object of the American Fish Cultural Association 
is to educate public sentiment by the presentation, annually, of 
actual results experienced in stocking public waters with food- 
fish. 
Of late the metropolitan press is well represented at our 
meetings. Liberal space in their thronged columns is given to 
our deliberations. The papers read are copiously quoted. Ed- 
itorials are written,commendatory of our labors. Tshe Associated 
Press agents telegraph a synopsis of our proceedings to all parts 
of the land. The secular and religious press, east, west, north, 
and south, copy to'a greater or less extent from the journals of 
the metropolis. Surely,in the near future the people will become 
informed of the really remarkable progress that is being made in 
the theory and practice of fish-culture, and their representatives 
in the state and national councils will make liberal appropria- 
tions to more rapidly advance the coming day when the most pov- 
erty-stricken citizen can procure an abundance of cheap, fresh, 
preserved, or salted fish-food. 
It is a fact well-known to those who have been identified with 
this comparatively new science that many of the most successful 
efforts in restocking exhausted waters have been due to private 
enterprise. 
Monuments are erected to military heroes and notable states- 
men. Surely the praiseworthy act of the unknown engineer of 
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, who transported in the water- 
tank of his engine a score of black bass from the waters of the 
‘Ohio to the rapids of the Potomac, over twenty years ago, is 
equally deserving. Look at the results of that philanthropic 
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