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good bass waters in other sections of the State that cannot well be 
supplied from these ponds. 
It will be necessary, therefore, within the next two years to build 
one or two more hatcheries and establish one or two more series of bass 
ponds. 
We are greatly in need of a hatchery, at one of the Chicago parks, 
where lake trout and possibly white fish may be hatched in the winter 
and pike-perch in the spring. 
If suitable arrangements could be made, bass ponds, or ponds for 
breeding crappies, might be constructed on the same tract. 
For breeding lake trout and white fish fry to be placed in Lake 
Michigan, it is necessary for many reasons that the hatchery be located 
on the lake front. 
Spawn for hatching must be collected on the lake. With a hatchery 
on the lake front, fishing grounds could be reached with our own boats, 
the spawn taken direct to the hatchery at a comparatively small cost. 
Then fry may be cheaply distributed from our own boats from a hatchery 
located on the lake front. 
There is another advantage in having a hatchery located at a place 
like one of our Chicago parks. Water service could be secured at a very 
reasonable cost. 
Still further, a hatchery so located would serve as an educational 
institution, not only for mature people but for our school children. 
More and more are we coming to realize the importance of teaching 
the young to take an interest in animals, birds, fishes and plants that 
are developing, not to say bugs and inferior insects: A fish hatchery, 
while the spawn is going through the hatching process, is not only inter- 
esting to the young mind, but is a source of wholesome instruction as 
well. ‘There is no reason why educational systems might not well be 
supplemented with the work of a fish hatchery. Particularly would a 
visit to a fish hatchery in the course of operation be of real value to 
school children above the seventh grade. 
Another hatchery and series of bass ponds are needed at some point 
on the Kankakee or Rock Rivers to take care of the waters in the middle 
and southern parts of the State. With these hatcheries and ponds it 
would be possible to stock well all the fish waters of the State. 
STATE KISH CAR. 
No matter how many fish hatcheries and artificial fish ponds the 
State may have, the commission will fall short of rendering the State 
effective service without the aid of a fish car for the distribution of 
fish fry. 
Where fry are shipped in baggage cars, in milk cans, with an 
attendant, it is impossible to make as large shipments as are necessary 
in order to dispose of the fry hatched, in good season. 
One man in a baggage car should care for but few cans of fry 
where they were going a large distance. Hence the old method of ship- 
ping fry is not practical under the present state of fish culture where 
great numbers of fry are hatched each year. The method is obsolete. It 
