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Show FISH FOR FOOD.. The men who have been trying to improve the food situation in New York, and they have succeeded to some extent, ex-tent, have been purchasing fish by the carload in Seattle and transporting them clear across the continent. "We read of 20,000 pounds of smelt in one lot and 80,000 pounds in another. The first consignment was sold at 6 cents per pound, and the result was a general demand de-mand for further supplies. The Atlantic Atlan-tic ocean is supposed to be full of fish of all kinds, but the fishermen have not so good an opportunity to make catches in the winter months as their brethren on the Pacific coast, so an outlet has , been furnished for the Seattle product in the New York market. With the breaking up of the big ranches in the United States in order to provide homesteads for landless families, fam-ilies, it is probable we shall soon witness wit-ness a great falling off in the number of head of cattle marketed in this country. coun-try. Then there will be a great market for fish iu the interior. We believe it 1 would pay handsomely if enterprising citizens of such states as Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and South Dakota would use 1 some of the waste land in those states in fish culture. There are any number ! of places in all these states that could be filled with water at a comparatively trifling cost and fish hatched in vast numbers. There would be no doubt, about the market and the profit would be certain. Experiments of this kind should be tried and the government should lend a hand in establishing , a prospective new industry. Intensive farming and the practice of economy will help solve the food problem in. the United States, but every other means should be employed to increase the supply sup-ply and lower the cost. |