"fish Farming."

The Superintendent of State Fiaher ies senda groeting to all interested in stocking the interior lakes witli whitefish: In the course of three or four weeks - the precise time can not be stated - there is every reasonable hope of a liberal supply of whitefish for distribution in the inland waters of the State. Parties desiring theui for stocking their luki.'s are requested to give speuiai heec to the following, compliance therowith boing a prerequisite to obtaining the fish: 1. A correspondont and depositor's addreaH plaiuly written, for each lake. 2. The name of the lake. 3. County and township where located. 4. Acreage area, as nearly as may be 5. Extreme, and average depth o; water, as nearly as practicable. 6. Kailroad station at which it is desired to have the caus of fish shipped. 7. The coniumsion can deliver no fish except at ruilroad .stations. The supply for ench lake will in no case be less than 5,000, and ranging from that to 25,000. All depositors will roceive notice o shipment froin two to four days in advauce. And it is most earnestly enjoined upon depsitors that they presen themselves at the baggage-car door on the stopping of the train, that thoj may receive from the party in charge o the cans instructions in regard to the deposit ; and that thoy may assist in removing the oans from the cars and so occasion as little delay to the train, an trouble to the employés of the road as possible. The roads of the State are very kindly inoving our fish free o charge, and henee every connideration of honesty and fairness requires that we should facilítate the transit of the oans by every possible ineans and agency at our command. Again, persons consenting to beconie depositors must not forget their engagement with the superintendent ; they must come to time, meet the cans on their arrival though the heavens fall Should sickness or other calamitybefal the regular depositor, a good substitute must be supplied, else the fish will be dumped to the platform, meeting, nol muriting, the pitiless fate of Tliose whoin many fathers share Rarely know a iather's care. Depositors also must make it their personal business to see that the empty cans are immediately returned to Detroit, where the fish are, for except this be done the work will necessarily be suspended and the lakes unsupplied. Depositors, too, are requested to make sharp work of the deposit. Come prepared to go directly and immediately from the station to the lake - no matter what the hour, though it be the dead hour of midnight, all the better for the fish, since at such time the water wolves and jackalls have their jaws closed in obedience to Nature's great mandate that assureth rest and security alike to the hyena and the lamb. Besides no good depositor will leave his charge a single hour, and he may as well - better, even - be whistling his way to the lake, than to be at the station or at home hovenng and shivering over the cans of fish through the long and weary hour. Just one thing more. Should the applications for fish exceed our supply, a contingeucy hardlv likely to happen, in such event the ultímate selection of the lakes to which the fish will be shipped must be left with the coinmission, they assuring one and all that in making the selection and appointment only one desire and purpose shall govern their action, uamely, to place the fish where the field is the most promising, the chances of success the greatest ; and, furtherinore, to plant exactly where no party, section or interest shall be remombered, nor none forgotten. " Verbum sat, sapienti " - freely rendered, trust ua and keep your powder dry. GEORGE H. JEROME, Suporinteudcnt oi State Fisheries. Niles, February 1, 1876.