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fresh waters, and Professor Baird has characterized the bluefish 
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as more ravenous than the shark. 
Cot. McDona.p.—The black bass is of great value to some 
rivers. I sent tothe Holston River for bass to stock New River, 
Virginia, and the bass were so lively that they jumped the seine, 
but we caught some, and it wasa great gain. They increased 
and made a summer resort of the river, where hundreds now go to 
fish. The black bass are worth five dollars per pound to the 
people who keep hotels and boats, for they get that, on an aver- 
age, indirectly from the anglers, and others who resort there. 
Mr. Matuer.—I do not think that Dr. Henshall has advocated 
the placing of black bass in trout waters. He is very enthusi- 
astic on the bass as a game fish, and personally may prefer it to 
trout, but he is too well-informed not to know that trout anglers 
do not agree with him. I know of a gentlemen in this city who 
has taken trout for years, and only fished for black bass fora 
limited time, who prefers the bass. For myself I prefer trout 
fishing, but think very little of either trout or black bass for the 
table. For mea fresh codfish is far ahead of them. I would 
never put black bass in good trout waters, but our large rivers 
are not trout waters, and the bass there will prove the most 
valuable of fishes to the angler. 
FOOD FISH AND FISH FOOD. 
BY A. N. CHENEY. 
Repeated experiments and close and intelligent observation 
for years, has enabled the fish-culturist to lay down certain prin- 
ciples and formule which, if adhered to, make the artificial 
hatching of fish an improvement upon nature’s ways to the 
same end. 
Nature is said to be, and is, a bountiful provider; but at one 
time it seemed as though the natural and acquired habits of de- 
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