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set out, walks and driveways repaired, so tliat the several acres connected with the 

 hatchery proper present a very attractive appearance befitting State property. The 

 show of fish and the arrangement of the grounds and ponds were greatly appreciated 

 by the many hundreds of people who daily visited the place during the summer and 

 fall season. 



The following figures will show the business that has been done in planting fish 

 during the year: 658,000 brook trout fry, 286,000 brown trout fry, 865,000 lake 

 trout fry, 50,000 steelhead salmon fry, 100,000 pike-perch fry, 300 adult black bass, 

 115,000 shrimp, 3,500,000 whitefish fry, 500,000 frost fish fry, 3,500 yearling rainbow, 

 brown and brook trout, 1,985 one-and-one-half-year-old brown trout, 79,850 finger- 

 ling lake trout, 27,450 fingerling brook trout, 11,500 fingerling brown trout, 1,000 

 fingerling rainbow trout, have been planted in the \'arious waters of the State. In 

 this connection 1 might give the number of fingerling, or eight-months-old trout, 

 remaining on hand for distributimi: 70,000 brook trout, 32,000 brown trout, 8,000 

 lake trout, 14,000 rainbow trout and about 4,000 land-locked salmon, steelhead and 

 Scotch sea trout. 



The Clayton Hatchery is located near the village by that name in Jefferson county. 



The State does not own this property, onl\- the apparatus used in the hatchery. 

 The water suppl}- is rather limited, hut is much better in quantit)- and qualilx' than at 

 least four of <.)ur hatcheries are supplied with ; and with a little more impro\'ement, 

 this hatchery could be turning out a goodly number of fingerling lake and brown 

 trout, as well as attending to the hatching of whitefish, ciscoes and pike. This year I 

 attempted to raise a few fingerlings at this place, and the results show that with 

 careful management on the part of the foreman, fifteen or twenty thousand eight- 

 months-old trout might be easily turned (jut each }-ear. The output from this place 

 during the year was 7,500,000 whitefish fry, 27,500,000 cisco fry, 9,300,000 pike- 

 perch fry, 23,500 large mouth black bass fry, 1,000 fingerling lake trout and 1,500 

 bullheads, and there remain about 3,000 fingerling trout for distribution. 



The principal pike hatching station is located at Constantia, Oswego count}-, on 

 the shores of Oneida lake, I consider this the best location for a pike-perch hatchery 

 there is in the State, and I would recommend the permanent establishing of a large 

 and extensive plant at this point. 



A small creek empties into Oneida lake at this place, which for one-half mile up 

 stream is a natural spawning bed for pike-perch. More eggs were taken in a few days 

 than our present hatchery would accomodate, and through our inability to handle the 

 eggs if taken, many millions remained uncollected. The hatching of fift)' per cent, of 

 the number of pike-perch eggs taken is considered a very liigh percentage; 32,150,000 

 pike-perch fry were hatched and distributed from this hatchery the past year. 



