54 FISH AND GAME. 



superintendent of the Michigan Fish Commission, who pro- 

 nounced the Gates Brook proposition, because of the physical 

 lay of the land and the reputation of this stream as a natural 

 trout stream, to be one of the best locations yet seen for the 

 purpose of rearing trout and salmon on the upper parts of the 

 station, and for black bass lower down the stream. 



Sandwich Hatchery. The finest trout hatchery site in the 

 Commonwealth is located at Sandwich, Mass., and consists of 

 two parts, one at East Sandwich, the other at Sandwich. The 

 East Sandwich rearing station, with an ever-abundant supply 

 of pond and spring water, should produce a sufficient number 

 of trout eggs to supply all other State hatcheries when a mod- 

 ern hatching house, with a capacity of at least 6,000,000, and 

 a large number of brood pools are constructed, thus eliminating 

 the necessity of keeping a separate brood stock at each hatch- 

 ery. The Sandwich division comprises 22^ acres of land, on 

 which is located a hatching house 60 by 20 feet, containing 28 

 single troughs, a spawning tank, egg trays, gasolene engine, 

 meat choppers, fish cans, shipping cases, tools, etc. In the 

 hatching house 1,400,000 eggs can be raised to the eyed stage, 

 when they are shipped to the other stations for final hatching, 

 and an additional 2,000,000 can be reared to the fry stage. The 

 outside equipment consists of 18 cement nurseries, 12 inter- 

 mediate ponds and 6 large cement ponds fed by two streams 

 of water, one with an average capacity of about 80 gallons per 

 minute, the other of about 50 gallons, in addition to 28 artesian 

 wells flowing from 3 to 9 gallons per minute. 



At East Sandwich, about 4| miles distant, the fish hatching 

 property consists of 4 T 2 oV acres of land, a workshop containing 

 water wheel, meat chopper, nets, tools, etc., small building 

 with two spawning tanks, 38 small ponds, of which 7 are lined 

 with wood and 4 with cement, and 39 artesian wells flowing 

 from 2| to 15 gallons per minute. In addition, the Common- 

 wealth has acquired the exclusive right to the water from a 

 7 acre spring water pond on the opposite side of the road from 

 the hatchery, the water being taken from the surface through 

 a sluiceway. 



This station was considered the best commercial hatchery in 

 Massachusetts, and before its purchase, at the request of your 



