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for storing shade boards, and a 6-foot addition to the stripping 

 house, which will be used for an experimental station for hatch- 

 ing eggs. The grounds have been graded, a new lawn made in 

 front of the shop, all brush cleared off, and the 6-inch water 

 main tapped to supply water to the stripping house, instead of 

 the old wooden flume. So far we have replaced sections of 

 wooden pools with concrete. We have asked for an appropria- 

 tion this year to replace another section with concrete. Our 

 policy will be to do as much of this as possible annually, until 

 we have enough concrete pools to utilize all of the water supply, 

 and then we shall consider the station completed. 



A Ford truck has been purchased to replace the old heavy 

 truck. This not only facilitates the necessary travel between 

 the two stations, but by selling the horse which we kept for 

 several years, and using the truck instead of hiring teams, we 

 believe a substantial saving on our bills for cartage will result. 



PALMER HATCHERY. 



This station has been further developed during the past year 

 by the completion of two additional bass ponds for rearing 

 small-mouthed black bass, and by building a reservoir and pipe 

 line from the Fortune property to the hatchery building. Here 

 we collected three springs and brought the water down to the 

 hatchery 150 feet below. It will be possible to add other 

 springs to this same system in the future. The water will be 

 used to supply the different houses for domestic purposes, as 

 well as for the hatchery work. 



In the carpenter shop we built 80 wooden trout-rearing 

 pools, - - 50 for the salmon-rearing station at Andover, and 30 

 for a station to be located next season. Superintendent 

 Monroe supervised the building of the rearing station at 

 Andover during the spring, and also established field stations 

 on Marthas Vineyard and at Watuppa Lake in Fall River for 

 taking white perch and small-mouthed black bass. 



The new State highway from Palmer to Ware has been 

 finished past the hatchery, thus affording better facilities for 

 shipping fish and getting supplies. 



This year the output from this station was larger than ever 



