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with being alert in trying out new ideas in fish culture. As 

 yet no experiments along this line have been given a thorough 

 enough trial to furnish conclusive evidence. Six hundred 

 thousand Chinook salmon eggs were received from the Oregon 

 Fish and Game Commission in excellent condition, of which 

 15,000 were sent to the Sandwich, 10,000 to the Adams, and 

 575,000 to the Palmer Hatcheries. At the Palmer Hatchery 

 the small fish were transferred to the outside rearing pools in 

 the latter part of March. During May and July 300,000 

 fingerlings, size Nos. 1 and 2, and during September 25,000 

 finger-lings, size No. 4, were shipped to the Andover rearing 

 station. Here they were maintained in similar rearing pools 

 until early fall. These pools are located on the edge of a 

 small pond connecting with the Shawsheen River, which in 

 turn empties into the Merrimack. The flashboards are pulled 

 out of the pond and the salmon are permitted to work down 

 stream, thus providing them with a natural run to salt water. 

 This experiment, which will go far toward determining whether 

 the western salmon can be acclimatized in the Atlantic Ocean 

 is being w r atched by fish experts the country over. Eggs used 

 were taken from the fall run of fish near the mouth of the 

 Columbia River. The return of these fish as adults up the 

 stream as far as the Lawrence dam will prove it a success and 

 establish whether or not fall eggs produce spring fish. Results 

 will not be evident for four years at least. Your Commis- 

 sioners are determined to give this experiment a thorough trial, 

 and will continue to put annually into the Merrimack an in- 

 creasing number of these splendid fish. 



LANDLOCKED SALMON. 



More than 19,000 landlocked salmon were reared at the 

 Sandwich and Adams stations during the past year, and were 

 liberated during September and October as fingerlings in the 

 following lakes, the outlets of which are screened to prevent 

 the escape of the fish: - 



(1) Lake Attitash, Amesbury. 



(2) Sheep Pond, Brewster. 



(3) Lake Quinsigamond, Worcester. 



(4) Onota Lake, Pittsfield. 



