360 BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 



not do the slightest harm to the boxes, and, as the water would support 

 the greater part of the weight, a dozen packages of fish might be at- 

 tached to the rope at the same time, with a short distance between them, 

 say one box for every G yards of rope. By this means I believe the 

 catch could be transferred day or night, and in almost all weather, with 

 a tenth part of the present hibor and no risk to life or boats, as quickly 

 as the steamer could haul the boxes up her sides. A supply of empty 

 cases could be sent to the smack in the same manner." 



A RAINBOW TROUT REARED FROM EGGS BROUGHT FROM CALIFOR- 

 NIA.— On February 19, 1884, Mr. H. R. Clarke, of the South Side Sports- 

 men's Club, of Oakdale, Long Island, wrote to Professor Baird as fol- 

 lows : " I send you, per Adams Express, a rainbow trout measuring 20 

 inches in length and weighing 3 pounds 4 ounces. It died day before 

 yesterday. 1 thought I would send it to you just to show the size and 

 form, its colors being almost faded out. It was raised from the eggs 

 you so kindly gave us four years ago. I measured one this morning that 

 is 23-| inches in length. I think it will weigh over 4 pounds, being four 

 years old in IMarch. There are at the present time in our preserves 104 

 from the original hatching of the 1,000 eggs from you, 1,050 two years 

 old, and over 10,000 one year old. Those two years old will weigh from 

 one-half to 1^ i)0unds." 



Growth of rainbow trout. — A correspondent of Forest and 

 Stream, wilting from Waterville, N. Y., March G, 1884, says: "Two 

 years ago about 10,000 California mountain trout were put into a pond 

 in this village. The next spring we found that the growth of these 

 trout, compared to that of our native trout, was astounding. The fol- 

 lowing August one weighing three-quarters of a pound was caught by 

 a small boy. I would never have believed that their growth was so 

 rai)id had I not seen the fish weighed. The trout at the time this large 

 one was caught were a little over a year old. Now many of our fisher- 

 men are wild on the subject of California trout, and we shall put 

 20,000 more into the same pond again this summer. But for one, I do 

 not think that they compare with our own brook trout in gameness, 

 flavor, or beauty. But our experiment was a decided success. For the 

 past three or four years we have been stocking our streams with brook 

 trout, and find the fishing very much improved thereby. Unless some- 

 thing unforeseen occurs we shall continue to stock them every year." 



The value of a whale. — C. A. Williams & Co., of Xew London, 

 Conn., received returns, May 20, of the sale of the i)roducts of a whale 

 captured recently by the crew of ship Lizzie P. Simmons, of that 

 port. The whalebone fetched $12,230 and the oil $3,490 in Scotland, 

 making the total value of the whale $15,720. This is the largest yield 

 from a single whale on record. The monster was caught in Cumberland 

 Inlet. [New York Tribune, May 22, 1864.] 



