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1885.] Document No. 1G. 13 AVith these cliscouragiag facts before you, there is yet within me the strongest conviction that all the shad eggs we can handle, up to fifty millions, can be taken with gill-nets within five miles of the central hatchery, at an annual cost of -$000. If such a supply is so cheaply to be had, it will never do, under any cir-cumstances, to stop where we are. AVe have spent a great deal of money in this particular work and have five hatcheries built and designed especially for it. We have engines and pumps, the most approved apparatus in the form of glass and tin hatching vessels, shipping-cans and buckets in quantities, with spawn-pans, rubber tubing, oil-skin suits, coats and camp outfit for thirty men, all aggregating several thousand dollars, upon our hands. We have most skilful men of my own training, all of our own people, and we are as well equipped for such work as any country in the world. If the aforesaid gill-nets do not prove valuable, it is then time to withdrav/. If we do not try them we may lose the only resource, and the only one I have felt quite positive about for two years. An abandonment of shad-hatching now, without fully testing the gill-nets, would be unadvised and against tlie best interest of the people. Without recourse to the gill-nets, I should now recommend the total abandonment of the shad work—not tliat in its present proportions it is lacking in real value in supplying more fish, but, as I said before, because you cannot do enough with six to ten million eggs to convince the people, and you would be carrying a dead weight, harmfid to all the other fishery work and to your other attempts to benefit the people. Now, a small sum of $500 expended as I would wish it, will determine the question whether shad propagation can or cannot be made a success. Until such examination is made, the question will remain unsolved; and it is important, considering our fine equipment in hatcheries and skilled men. With every important point of detail before me, and a keen appreciation of your responsibilities, I earnestly recommend the expenditure of the above small sum for this special purpose. No other money is asked for shad propagation this year, and this amount I ask to test the final conclusion whether we are to sacrifice that already
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Full Text | 1885.] Document No. 1G. 13 AVith these cliscouragiag facts before you, there is yet within me the strongest conviction that all the shad eggs we can handle, up to fifty millions, can be taken with gill-nets within five miles of the central hatchery, at an annual cost of -$000. If such a supply is so cheaply to be had, it will never do, under any cir-cumstances, to stop where we are. AVe have spent a great deal of money in this particular work and have five hatcheries built and designed especially for it. We have engines and pumps, the most approved apparatus in the form of glass and tin hatching vessels, shipping-cans and buckets in quantities, with spawn-pans, rubber tubing, oil-skin suits, coats and camp outfit for thirty men, all aggregating several thousand dollars, upon our hands. We have most skilful men of my own training, all of our own people, and we are as well equipped for such work as any country in the world. If the aforesaid gill-nets do not prove valuable, it is then time to withdrav/. If we do not try them we may lose the only resource, and the only one I have felt quite positive about for two years. An abandonment of shad-hatching now, without fully testing the gill-nets, would be unadvised and against tlie best interest of the people. Without recourse to the gill-nets, I should now recommend the total abandonment of the shad work—not tliat in its present proportions it is lacking in real value in supplying more fish, but, as I said before, because you cannot do enough with six to ten million eggs to convince the people, and you would be carrying a dead weight, harmfid to all the other fishery work and to your other attempts to benefit the people. Now, a small sum of $500 expended as I would wish it, will determine the question whether shad propagation can or cannot be made a success. Until such examination is made, the question will remain unsolved; and it is important, considering our fine equipment in hatcheries and skilled men. With every important point of detail before me, and a keen appreciation of your responsibilities, I earnestly recommend the expenditure of the above small sum for this special purpose. No other money is asked for shad propagation this year, and this amount I ask to test the final conclusion whether we are to sacrifice that already |