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following, which show where the disease was un- 

 known: 



"Never had in our State hatcheries any epidemic ex- 

 cept among fish less than six months old." — C. S. 

 White, Fish Commissioner of West Virginia. 



"We had no disease at the South Side Club, such as 

 you describe last year. Our large trout were remark- 

 ably healthy. The great loss In old fish is during and 

 after the spawning season ; not only those suffering 

 from fungus on wounds received in fighting, but many 

 seem to have died from no apparent Cause.' In the win- 

 ter of 1889-90 the loss was heavier than ever before. 

 This season it was light." — Roland Redmond, Presi- 

 dent South Side Sportsman's Club. * 



Neither was the disease observed at Eastport, L. I., 

 according to Dr. H. G. Preston, President of the Ox- 

 ford Rod and Gun Club, in the ponds of the club at that 

 place, some thirty miles east of the South Side Club. 



The following persons have seen more or less of this 

 epidemic, or One similar to it : 



"While I was an employee of the State Hatchery at 

 Caledonia, N. Y., in 1883 or 1884, the large trout died 

 off by hundreds in the surnmer, with a disease, I should 

 say, similar to the one that you rnention. It could not 

 have been the common fungus, which is usually caused 

 by an injury to the skin. I used to pick out the trout 

 every morning, or assist in doing so, and I believe that 

 if not the same disease, it is closely allied to the one of 

 which you speak, and I noticed that there was consid- 

 erable dark fluid oozing from many of them." — John 

 G. Roberts, Supt. Adirondack Station N. Y. Fish Com- 

 mission. 



* This club is at Oakdale, on the south side of Long Island, 

 and distant from our ponds, on the north side, about twenty- 

 five miles in a direct line. F. M. 



