410 ANNUAL RECORD OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 



the river during the period was 82 (on the 9th of June), the 

 water being only 75 on the 22d. 



The report gives a table of the distribution of California 

 salmon and the salmon of Maine from eggs received from the 

 United States Fish Commission and hatched out at the state 

 establishment at Marietta ; as also of another supply hatched 

 out at Dr. Slack's place at Troutdale, New Jersey. The 

 localities where these were planted are also indicated in the 

 report. 



The Commissioners are satisfied that the efforts in regard 

 to California salmon have proved a success, and that after 

 a few years both the Delaware and the Susquehanna will 

 abound in this important addition to the food resources of 

 the country. They remark that they have seen the young 

 California salmon, from four to eight inches in length, taken 

 with the hook and line. 



A good deal was done by the Commissioners in the distri- 

 bution of salmon- trout in the rivers of Pennsylvania, 67,600 

 having been planted in different localities. 



EEPORT OF THE EISH COMMISSIONERS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE 



FOE 1874. 



The report of the Commissioners of Fisheries of the State 

 of New Hampshire, for 1874, has just been published, and 

 gives an account of the labors of the new Commissioners, 

 Messrs. Noyes, Wadleigh, and Fifield, who superseded the 

 former officers about a year ago. Owing to the short period 

 during which they have held office, they have not much to 

 record, although they promise to carry on their work as vig- 

 orously as the means at their command will allow. 



They propose a somewhat different method than that usu- 

 ally employed for stocking the waters, namely, the transfer 

 of parent fish themselves, instead of depending upon the eggs 

 or the young. They announce that they have made arrange- 

 ments to put several thousand whitefish from Lake Cham- 

 plain into waters of the state best suited to their propagation. 

 They intend to introduce shad into some of the larger rivers 

 as soon as they can obtain the mature fish, deeming it far 

 preferable to the introduction of the eggs or young fry. If 

 they can devise some method of keeping large shad for even 

 a few hours in a confined body of water, and of transporting 



