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well stated by the gentleman. We propose to give the same sum to 
the officer created under this act as was paid to the assistant, namely, 
$5,000. 
The business of propagating our food-fishes is well appreciated by 
the people all over our country. Since Professor Baird began this 
work there has been sent out by tank, cans, and otherwise, throughout 
the land, from Texas to Maine, and from the Columbia River to the 
St. Johns, one hundred millions of young fish, or spawn for the 
propagation of this food. 
The report of Professor Goode (H. Mis. Doc. No. 39) to the present 
Congress shows the cost during the last fiscal year of the production, 
transportation, and distribution of these hundred millions from their 
sixteen hatching and rearing stations. ‘The propagation expenses was 
$130,000, the cost of fish ponds and distribution was $45,000; and the 
same sum for vessels engaged in the service. There are existing other 
appliances for the founding of this extensive and humane object, which 
J will not now dwell upon. 
The time has almost come prophesied by Professor Huxley, when an 
acre of water will almost produce as much food for the support of 
human life as an acre of land. 
The science of fish propagation is one of the marvels of our time. 
It is one of the miracles of physical culture. We have understood, 
appreciated, and encouraged by law this wonderful multiplication of 
food-fishes. 
If I am permitted to refer modestly to my travels, I will say that 
when I was coasting around Norway a scientist informed me—point- 
ing out over the Arctic Ocean, which we were inspecting—that there 
had been the year before a shoal of codfish near the Loféden Islands 
1 mile in superficial extent, containing 150,000,000 cod; and that those - 
codfish had fed on 420,000,000 herring. There is no limit to the 
wonderful infinitude of these finny creatures of the deep. 
Professor Baird saw with generous vision this result of natural law. 
Although I believe the invention or discovery of this remarkable 
fecundity and mode of propagation in fish was made at an earlier date 
than 1871, still he utilized it. To be just in this connection, I may 
remark that before Professor Baird undertook this service, Dr. Gar- 
lick, an Ohio man, discovered the process. His is not a happy name, 
but his discovery was felicity itself to millions. Is it not a curious 
fact that Ohio always seem to be a little ahead of other States in cer- 
tain affairs—political or otherwise? Excuse my seeming forwardness 
in speaking of Ohio products, for I was born there myself. 
Nevertheless, Mr. Speaker, there never was an interest in this 
country so cared for by the Government as this of fish. Our first 
efforts, at least in New England, began with fish. -When our ances- 
tors—I refer to New England where I was educated—when our an- 
