410 ANNUAL RECORD OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 



Legislature, and contains an account of the proceedings dur- 

 ing the year on the part of the commissioners, Messrs. Wil- 

 liam M. Hudson, Robert G. Pike, and James A. Bill. The re- 

 port contains valuable information in regard to the breeding 

 of shad in the Connecticut River; and the opinion is ex- 

 pressed that the extraordinary yield in 1871 was the legiti- 

 mate result of the immense numbers bred in the upper wa- 

 ters of the river since 1867. 



The most important portion of their work during the year 

 was that in reference to stocking the rivers with salmon. For 

 this purpose the commissioners joined the authorities of Mas- 

 sachusetts and Maine in prosecuting experiments, under the 

 direction of Mr. Atkins, Fish Commissioner of Maine, for the 

 purpose of obtaining salmon spawn in the Penobscot River. 

 The result was quite successful. The eggs being divided 

 among the three states mentioned, nearly 22,000 of them 

 came to the share of Connecticut. These were placed in 

 hatching-boxes in the Poquonnock, and have been hatched out 

 with the loss of only about twenty per cent. The commis- 

 sioners soon expect to have about 24,000 salmomfry in good 

 health, to be distributed in Farm River, Little River, and the 

 Saugatuck. Report. 



PLANTING OF SHAD IN THE VALLEY OF THE MISSISSIPPI AND 



THE LAKES. 



During the closing hours of the last Congress an appro- 

 priation of $15,000 was made for the purpose of introducing 

 salmon, shad, and other valuable food fishes into the rivers 

 and lakes of the United States, and its expenditure was placed 

 in the hands of Professor Baird, the United States Commis- 

 sioner of Fish and Fisheries. The late period at which this 

 appropriation was made rendered it difficult to accomplish 

 much in reference to shad, as the season for their hatching 

 was very nearly over; but, notwithstanding this, we are grat- 

 ified at being able to record a very satisfactory beginning to 

 the enterprise, the aid of Seth Green, of Rochester, and Rev. 

 William Clift, of Mystic Bridge, Connecticut, having been 

 secured by the commissioner. 



Mr. Green, as is well known, has been engaged for several 

 years in behalf of the Fish Commissioners of the State of New 

 York in hatching shad in the Hudson, and during the present 



