436 BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 



weeks after I got them the screens were accidentally left up a few inches, 

 and nearly all of my yearlings escaped, going down the ditch into Mad 

 River, about a mile below my ponds. Last year some were caught in 

 the Macocheek, near the residence of Col. Donn Piatt. This fall they, or 

 at least some, came back into the ditch, and I captured 19 very beauti- 

 ful ones, weighing from three-fourths pound to l- x % pounds, showing 

 that they had done better in Mad River than in my ponds, although 

 I had fed those in the ponds daily. 



Our county (Logan) is the highest in the State, containing many 

 brooks, all having their sources in the county; therefore I feel confident 

 that by stocking them with trout fry instead of lake pickerel (as has 

 been done to no advantage whatever, none having been caught as yet), 

 within a short time there will be great benefits derived. I have now a 

 hatching house and have succeeded in hatching 3,000 within the last 

 two weeks, and think I have capacity for 500,000. In my ponds (or one 

 of them) there are 10,000 yearlings doing well. As far as I can learn, 

 I am the second person in the State who has attempted to hatch or raise 

 trout ; and I have had the usual troubles and losses.* 



Zanesfield, Ohio, January 23, 1885. 



131.— PROPAGATION OF TROUT BY THE SOUTHSIDK C1.UB. 



By II. R. CLARKE. 



[From a letter to Prof. S. F. Baird.] 



I fc& M with this a female rainbow trout that died at the South Side 

 Club day before yesterday. It weighed when taken from the water close 

 to 4| po^uds and is from the original gift of eggs you sent us four years 

 ago last spring. We have left now about 80 of the first lot that were 

 hatched fro^i your 500 eggs, about 800 that are of the next generation, 

 weighing from 1£ to 3 pounds, and between 5,000 and 6,000 yearlings 

 that will weigh one-half pound and over. I send you the fish to show 

 to inquiring legislators in case they doubt your success in fish-raising. 

 Our fontinalis are through spawning, and we have in the hatchery 

 900,000 eggs in fine condition, with about 20,000 already out. We have 

 as yet no rainbow-trout ova, but appearances indicate that we shall 

 commence stripping some before long. Last year we got 1,000 eggs by 

 December 20. They are later this year, and perhaps may continue to 

 spawn later and later until they come back to first principles and spawn 

 as late as they do in California. 



237 Eighth Street, 



Jersey City, 1ST. J. y January 3, 1885. 



* On September 19, 1885, Mr. Smith wrote: Iu May, 1884, I obtained G8,000 raiubow- 

 trout fry from Michigan; 5,200 of these were placed in the Bine Jacket, a tributary 

 of the Miami River, and some have been caught there weighing over one-half pound 

 each. 



