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Show IDEA 18 TO RESTOCK THE SEA. Immense Plan In Contemplation by the United States. Ono of the largest and most audacious auda-cious conceptions ever seriously entertained en-tertained by a nation wo hide away year after yenr between tho covers of some of the dullest of our official reports. re-ports. Most of tho subjects of our boasting nre not unique achievements. Other countries have dug canals, though not so big na tho one at Panama. Pan-ama. But the Yankee nation Is prnc-ticully prnc-ticully the only one which ever undertook under-took to luciense tho supply of fish in the sen, not by such tremendous concerted con-certed action as wo are Invoking fot our forests and waterways, bi't by tho routine work of a minor government bureau. In the National Geographic Magazine Maga-zine George M. Bowers, the United States commissioner of fish and fisheries, fisher-ies, writing under the title of "Planting "Plant-ing Fishes In the Ocean," reviews tho results which have followed the most extensive projects of urtltlclal propagation. |