A few meals back some pickerel, home caught, is credited in our account, to the boys, as worth ten cents a pound, that is net weight. That Is what the fish we get by express seems to cost as it is put in the pan. It is bought at White-fish Bay at seven cents, packed in ice and boxed; but it has to be expressed over two railroads in some way that makes it pay double rate, and twenty-five pounds costs 50 cents, and there is another carriage from the depot. Although they come clean as to the insides, the heads, fins and backbones take away one-sixth of the weight, on an average, of different kinds of fish. Therefore, 25 lbs @ 7 cents and 50 cents added costs, $2 25. Take off one-sixth in trimming before cooking and we have scarce 21 lbs of fish for that sum. it being nearer eleven cents per pound than ten. As , there is waste, likewise, in all other kinds of meat, the only fair comparison that can be made is with the solid, boneless round of beef (No. 516) which we buy at thirteen cents. There is then a difference of three cents in favor of the fish, but if we cook it by breading and frying, the cost of fish and meat is about the same and our fish supper with fruit and cake is not one of the cheapest meals. The conditions are, of course, only local but are stated at length because they are likely to be much the same at a great number of resort houses.