mals. The establishment of the reindeer in Alaska, while its ulti- 

 mate success is questionable, has proved of considerable value on 

 several occasions. The government is introducing the Angora goat 

 into regions Avhere it promises to add materially to the resources of 

 the farmer. The last report of the Secretary of Agriculture turns 

 our attention to the development of the animal resources of our 

 island possessions. In Hawaii, for example, it is reported that 

 live hogs sell for ten to seventeen cents per pound, chickens for 

 $15 per dozen and eggs for forty to fifty cents per dozen, all being 

 in the category of luxuries. It is proposed to increase these prod- 

 ucts in the islands until they can be sold as cheaply as the common 

 foods. 



We will now consider that vast field of economic zoology in- 

 cluding all those animals directly beneficial or injurious to the 

 human race, which have not been domesticated to any extent. We 

 shall see that in this field, also, the present age is making great 

 conquests — and some sad mistakes as well. A mere enumeration 

 of the animals in question would occupy more time than can be 

 spared, and the characterization of their economic features must 

 therefore be very brief and imperfect. 



You have probably heard the ancient saying that Amsterdam 

 is built on herring bones, and we could all of us name less con- 

 spicuous communities of our own acquaintance whose existence de- 

 pends on fisheries and related industries. The British boast that 

 every acre of water about their island is more productive of wealth 

 than so much English soil. The German Ocean produces annually 

 eight to twelve pounds of fish per acre, or a billion to a billion and 

 a half of pounds in all, and the German government is laboring 

 to increase this output several fold. The sturgeon fisheries of the 

 Volga river employ a hundred thousand men. Two years ago the 

 fisheries of the United States yielded a return of forty millions 

 of dollars, and the oyster business alone was worth fourteen 

 millions, and yet the country had to import fishery products to the 

 value of six million dollars, most of which might as well have been 

 produced in American waters. Every one knows something of the 

 methods and results of the work of our national and state fish 

 commissions, to whom is due most of the credit for the prosperous 

 condition of our fisheries. Not only do they raise fish artificially 



