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them at forty to fifty cents per pound. Now it is difficult to 
sell a small lot at thirty cents. I notice another market man 
here, one who has had experience with these fish, and would ask 
Mr. Middleton what his opinion 1s. _ 
Mr. MippLeton.—I agree with Mr. Blackford entirely. The 
salmon of the Pacific are inferior and do not sell well here, 
now. 
Mrs. Lewis.—I think all fish should be judged by the color of 
its skin. The dark brook trout is coarser and of fuller fibre, 
and where this is the case it is the best. I think the rainbow 
trout brought East would be dark. California salmon have not 
gained the high reputation in the markets of Europe that the 
Salmo salar has. It is not considered a good salmon. 
Mr. Annin.—I have eaten the rainbow trout. Lieutenant 
Mansfield, of the U. S. Navy, has caught them in the West, and 
in my stream, at Caledonia, N. Y. One of the party went on 
the lower end of the stream to take rainbow trout, and caught 
many. He saved the larger ones in the well of the boat, and 
had them cooked in the morning. We all ate of them, and it 
was the unanimous verdict that they were inferior. Lieut. 
Mansfield said that they tasted like black bass from warm and 
muddy waters. Last summer I cooked one which was good. 
It had red flesh, the only one of the species that I ever saw 
with red flesh. Some Rochester gentlemen own the lower pre- 
serve on our stream, and they have said that they would give 
a hundred dollars if there was not a rainbow trout in it. 
Mr. WeEExks.—We need all the trout we can get in Pennsyl- 
vania, but the proper thing to do is to get them into the right 
places. Rainbow trout should never be put into good streams 
where the native trout will thrive. Those who handle them 
should be certain that they are not making a mistake, and should 
have a correct knowledge of the habits and merits of the fish 
before distributing them too widely. 
