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shallower or rockier stream can not do so. If the present laws for 

 the protection of fishes are rigidly enforced, and the poisoning of 

 the smaller streams by the waste products of factories of various 

 kinds prohibited, there is no reason why the Ohio and its large 

 tributaries, as the Muskingum, Scioto, Hocking, and the two 

 Miamis, and the streams flowing into Lake Erie, should not furnish 

 an ample supply of good food-fishes and game-fishes. 



