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The Game Book 
STANDARD BIG GAME MEASUREMENTS 
Every man wants to compare his trophy with those of other big-game hunters. 
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necessary additional employes required by the 
enlargement of the Bureau's functions on the 
islands have been appointed. The Bureau, under 
authority of the law and by direction of the 
Secretary of Commerce and Labor, has entered 
into negotiations for the purchase of the build¬ 
ings, boats and other property of the. North 
American Commercial Company on the islands. 
The company has placed an apparently reason¬ 
able valuation on its property, and the proposi¬ 
tion is under consideration subject to the results 
of an inventory now being made by an agent 
of the Bureau on the islands. 
The data relating to the killing and the con¬ 
dition of the seal herds to July 31, 1909. were 
published in the preceding report of the Bureau 
Those for the season of 1910 are not available 
at the time of writing the present report, and 
in any event are more strictly germane to the 
succeeding fiscal year. 
There is again urged the importance of a 
station for the study of fish diseases and ex¬ 
periments in the interests of fish culture. In 
some of the hatcheries of the Bureau and in 
similar establishments under State and private 
auspices, certain fish diseases have become so 
prevalent as to make it a matter of grave con¬ 
sideration whether the propagation of certain 
species, especially the trout, should not be aban¬ 
doned. It frequently occurs that the fish and 
fry are decimated by epidemics for which there 
are no known remedies in consequence of which 
I there are annually entailed on fish culture large 
wastes of time and money. In addition to the 
financial loss, embarrassment arises at times m 
filling legitimate demands for fish for restock¬ 
ing depleted waters, and the effect on the morale 
of the employes of the Bureau who have to 
struggle hopelessly against an obscure disease 
is not unworthy of consideration. The gravest 
phase of the matter, however, is the possible re¬ 
lationship of some of these diseases to more 01 
less kindred affections occurring in human beings. 
It has been determined that a type of cancerous 
affection is of widespread distribution among 
domesticated trout and their offspring planted 
in the streams. Whether this disease has a 
causal relation to cancer in human beings, or 
whether the two are to be even traced to the 
same source, is a matter of doubt, but the an- 
| nually increasing mortality from cancer in man 
and certain remarkable coincidences in the geo¬ 
graphical distribution of the disease in man and 
fish render it imperative that it should be made 
the subject of minute inquiry. The matter, 
therefore, has not only economic but humani¬ 
tarian aspects, and the consideration of the seri¬ 
ous character of the latter prompted the Presi¬ 
dent to submit to Congress on April 9, 1910, a 
special message advocating an appropriation of 
$50,000 for the construction and equipment of a 
laboratory adequate to enable the Bureau to dis¬ 
charge its plain obligations. The Bureau in the 
meantime is proceeding in the investigation to 
the limit of its powers, but it may be stated em¬ 
phatically that it can make but little progress 
without the special facilities asked for. 
The Salmon Fisher. 
Charles Hallock. Contents: Distribution of the Salmon. 
Life and History of the Salmon. Technology of Salmon 
Fishing. Salmon Fishing in the Abstract. Cloth. l-» 
pages. Price, $1.00. 
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