TENTH ANNUAL MEETING. 13 
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Mr. AnnIN.—My experience with carp has been that I received 
seventeen from Mr. Blackford and have only one leit. 
A Memsber.—I would like to ask if we have not had the carp 
in the Hudson River for years? I have heard of their being 
caught there quite often, but do not know if they are the same 
as the so-called German carp. 
Mr. RoosrveLtt.—I have seen many hundreds of the carp in 
the Hudson. They seldom grow above a pound in weight, but 
in Ohio they have a carp which weighs several pounds; as much 
as seven, I think. 
Pror. Goopr.—The fishes spoken of are not the German carp 
which has lately been introduced. The latter are best for warm 
waters, especially in the Southern States. In the national carp 
ponds at Washington there are now two hundred of the original 
carp brought from Germany some four years ago ; many of them 
are so large that they cannot be put in an ordinary wash-tub. 
The smallest of them will weigh over fifteen pounds. So great 
has been their growth in America that the Germans have applied 
for some of the stock to improve their own. A carp sent to 
Texas when only afew inches long, grew to eight pounds in one 
year. 
Mr. MarHer.—I collected all the accounts of the growth of 
carp in America, and read them before the Central Fishcultural 
Society at its last meeting at Chicago. It was “published i in Forest 
and Stream of January 27th, of this year, and will soon appear in 
the report of the society referred to, of which I have the honor 
of being corresponding secretary, and I will be pleased to mail 
that report to any members of this association who may apply 
for it. 
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Mr. RoosevEL?T.—I forget what that large carp in Ohio is called. 
I gave some account of it in a book of mine, published many 
years ago. 
Pror. Goope.—The President probably refers to some of the 
