I would suggest that you permit the subject of the artificial hatching of
fish to engage your attention, and that you appropriate several dollars to
purchase whale's eggs, vegetable oysters and mock turtle seeds. The
hatching of fish is easy, and any man can soon learn it; and it is a
branch of industry that many who are now out of employment, owing to
circumstances beyond their control, will be glad to avail themselves of.
How, I ask you, could means better be adapted to the ends than for the
retiring officers of our State to go to setting on fish eggs?