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Acknowledgements. 



We are ,c:rcatly iiiflcbti'd to the various railroad iiiaiia<xenicnts of 

 ihr State for tli(>ir many favors and courtcsic^s. Tlicy have ^ivcii us 

 transportation and offcn^d us every assistance jjossible in (»ur work. 

 To tlieir ijjeuerosity we practically owe the extent of our work, for if 

 we had been conii)elled to pay ordinary freight charges on the tisli 

 carrie(l it would have Ix-en a serious drain u])on our limited resources. 



The followinij; named roads have Favored us rejK-atedly: 



(;iiicii;r<i.l5>irliiif,'1()n \- (>|uiiii'y K. Iv. St. Louis. .Minn \- TeiTo Ilmin- l\'. I\. 



Wabash Kailro.Kl. Wabnsli. Clicsicr iV Wpstcrii K. \{. 



Illinois C'etitralK. K'. ('liicairn iV Tox.-is K. H. 



(;iiic!i|,'o. I'ooria iV St. Louis !{. iv'. Elsrin. .Juliet iV Ka^tcrn K. Iv. 



Haltiniore <Sc Oliio Suutlnvtsteni K. Iv. Fulton County ]{. \i. 

 CliicuKo & Xoithwcstern Ky. i e'liicayro <V.- Eastern Illinois R. H. 



(^hiciiufo, Milwaukee iV: St. Paul Ky. In(lianai)olis. Docatnr A: Western Iv. K. 



Cliicairo. Hoi-k Islaml vV- Pacific 1^ I^ Louisville \- Nashville K'. R. 

 Lake Erie A: Western K. K*. 



While we cannot sliow a direct and inime(liati' advantaire to the 

 railroads of the State in the increase t)f our tisli su[)j)ly. we think we 

 can assure them that the future will not be witho.it profit to them. 

 even from this source, i^t any rate, we are under .i^reat obligations 

 to them, and we should like very much to see them reai)sonu> benefit 

 i'rom oui' worl<. 



To the press of the State, always iibei'al. we ;\vr under (lee})i-r oldi- 

 L;ati()ns than ever before tor briii.!j:iiiL!," our work l)e['(»re the people of 

 our State, and thus edneatinu them not only as to what should bc\ 

 but what is beinu' done in our line. 



1\) the various tishiiiu' clubs we owe ael<nowlcdn-ement of assistance 

 rendered times without number, and Li^'uerous recou'nition of our 

 elToi'ts ha\'e been I'tHMiuent and hel[)rul. 



SlMMAItV. 



While we ai'c inclined to tin- opinion that neither wi' nor those 

 who preceded us lia\e always worked on the nmst practical linos, yet 

 it has taken years of the most i)atient work and study to know just 

 what was needed and how it could best be accomplished, and the 

 work has shown ii'ood results, if one may juilue by the favorable re- 

 ])orts which come to us from all parts of tlu' Statt> of what has boon 

 accomplished, b^'omlhe e\[)erience of the past years of the (^cm- 

 mission we deduct the conclusions embodied in this report, that the 

 iireatest u'ood is to be Liaiued by uiving the greatest attention to tiRli 

 as a food supply, believinu; that tht.- inter(>sts of the sportsman will 

 be s\d>served at the same time. 



