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The Carp were immediately assorted, the larger ones 

 being returned to the ponds, while those four or five 

 months old were placed in tanks at the hatching house 

 for distribution. Of the latter it was found that we had 

 available for issue twenty-hve thousand seven hundred 

 and eighty-live (25,785) Scale Carp ; eighteen hundred 

 and sixty (1860) Leather Carp, and eighteen hundred 

 and twenty-tive (1825) Mirror Carp, a very large increase 

 over the crop of the preceding year. The distribution 

 was at once commenced and has been continued up to 

 the present time. 



The number of lish given to any one 

 person in 1879 was limited to ten pairs, but the 

 greater success which had attended our efforts at propa- 

 gation during the summer of 1880, enabled me to in- 

 crease the allotment for that year to twenty-five pairs to 

 each person who applied for them at the hatching house, 

 while a very favorable arrangement made Avith the "B. 

 & O." and "Adams" Express Comx^anies enabled me to 

 transport the fish at small cost, and thus to distribute 

 twenty pairs each to many persons living at a distance, 

 who desired the fish, but could not conveniently call for 

 them. 



The following letter was mailed, prior to the distribu- 

 tion, to many prominent citizens throughout the State ; 

 and the attention of the public directed to the subject in 

 various other v>^ays : 



Maryland Fish Commission, 

 1327 "M" St., Wash., D. C, JVov. 1, 1880. 

 Dear Sir : — 



The propagation of the imported "Carp" at the breed- 

 ing ponds in Druid Hill Park has been so 

 successful this seaaon that I hope to be able to make a 

 very large distribution of this most valuable fish to those 

 persons in the State who desire to cultivate them, and I 

 have made arrangements with the "Adams" and "Balti- 

 more and Ohio" Express Companies which will enable 



