Outing . ONE PLACE WHERE FISH ARE HATCHED IN HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS BY THE STATE OF NEW YORK ing. Therefore fish can be placed uponthe table at much lower cost than meator fowl; it is the poor mans food, andat the same time a most wholesome anddelicious food. When in the wildernessI have for weeks at a time dependedupon fish which I caught with rod ornet as the chief part of every meal, andunder these conditions always have en-joyed unvarying good health. Incidental, therefore, to the settlementof a new country there naturally comesa constantly increasing demand for fishas the population grows,

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Outing . ONE PLACE WHERE FISH ARE HATCHED IN HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS BY THE STATE OF NEW YORK ing. Therefore fish can be placed uponthe table at much lower cost than meator fowl; it is the poor mans food, andat the same time a most wholesome anddelicious food. When in the wildernessI have for weeks at a time dependedupon fish which I caught with rod ornet as the chief part of every meal, andunder these conditions always have en-joyed unvarying good health. Incidental, therefore, to the settlementof a new country there naturally comesa constantly increasing demand for fishas the population grows, and larger andever larger numbers are taken from thewaters to supply the demand. Withevery; spawning shad killed approxi-mately one million eggs are destroyed;with every spawning trout about twelvehundred eggs. Thus the destruction ofevery spawning fish means the destruc-tion of hundreds that might have hatchedand grown to maturity. Not only thefish already in existence, but the naturaland normal increas

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