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STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY, 
ties at hand, we can easily reach all the settled parts of the state 
and find ready access to our inland streams and rivers and almost 
numberless lakes. For the most part, these streams and lakes are 
adapted to the habits and wants of great varieties of food fish, and 
when properly stocked, in connection with the other inland waters 
of the state, must materially increase the food resources of our peo¬ 
ple with a most healthful article of diet. 
AT MILWAUKEE 
we have placed in working order twenty of the Hatton hatching 
boxes, with a hatching capacity of 10,000,000 white fish eggs, and 
we now have in them in process of hatching, upwards of 7,000,000 
of the white fish spawn. There are also twenty-four troughs, twelve 
inches wide and sixteen feet long, with a hatching capacity for 
nearly 4,000,000 salmon trout spawn. We have now in these 
troughs nearly 2,000,000 of the eggs of the trout. The spawn of 
the white fish was taken at Detroit river, Escanaba, and Sangaton, 
and those of the trout at Milwaukee. By combining with other 
parties, we were enabled to greatly facilitate and forward our la¬ 
bor. The following named gentlamen co-operated with the com¬ 
mission in the taking of salmon trout eggs, and secured the num¬ 
ber named: 
N. K. Fairbank, for Green Lake . 600,000 
B, T. Shaw, for state of Iowa. 900,000 
G. H. Jerome, for state of Michigan. 1,000,000 
Seth Green, for the state of New York. 500,000 
It afforded us great pleasure as well as profit, in being brought 
in contact with these gentlemen, all of whom are skilled and enthu¬ 
siastic in the matter of fish propagation. Mr. Fairbank, of Chica¬ 
go, has devoted much time and money in encouraging fish culture 
within this state, and is proprietor of a private hatching house at 
Geneva; Mr. Shaw is fish commissioner of Iowa; Mr. Jerome is su¬ 
perintendent of fisheries of Michigan, and by long experience and 
close observation, has attained a national reputation as a successful 
breeder of fish. His labors are invaluable to Michigan, that being 
a state unrivaled in the Union for the extent of her waters, and to 
which, among our inland states, Wisconsin is only second. Of 
Hon. Seth Green we need not speak, his great labors and unpar¬ 
alleled success in fish culture having given him an enviable reputa- 
