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mission. Owing to lack of funds, we were ordered during the 

 latter part of June to plant all of our fish of every description. 

 These included over 3,000 brook trout ranging in age from four- 

 teen months to three years. The trout were planted by people 

 living near the station who drove to the hatchery for them. The 

 Delaware river, Mill brook, Plattekill and Whortleberry were 

 stocked in this way and the fishing in those streams during the 

 coming year ought to be much improved. 



The usual display of flowers in beds and boxes was made dur- 

 ing the summer. No repairs of any kind have been made during 

 the past season. — Reported by H. E. Annin, Foreman, Margaret- 

 ville, N. Y. 



Fulton -Chain Station 



The brook trout fry and fingerlings during this year were the 

 finest that we have ever raised. We had better results in collect- 

 ing whitefish eggs than ever before. The first eggs were taken 

 November 6th and the last November 18th, During this time we 

 took 33,138,000 eggs of which 11,592,000 were kept in the hatch- 

 ery, 19,446,000 were sent to the Oneida station and 2,100,000 to 

 the Adirondack hatchery. We obtained 50,000 lake trout eggs 

 from trout caught in the whitefish nets. The first eggs were taken 

 October 24th and the last November 18th. These eggs were 

 hatched and the fry were planted in the waters in which the eggs 

 were collected. 



We received a shipment of land locked salmon fry from the 

 United States hatchery at Cape Vincent which were kept here 

 until June 30th, on which date we shipped 12,000 fingerlings to 

 Lake George. 



The number of applications filled during the year was 209. — 

 Reported hy William H. Burke, Foreman, Old Forge, N. Y. 



LiNLiTHGO Station 



The output of this station was not as large as usual because the 

 facilities for collecting shad eggs were poor. Only a few shad 

 eggs were obtained from two fishermen who took the eggs, cared 

 for them themselves, put them aboard the train and sent them 

 to the hatchery. No river herring eggs were secured at all, and 

 only one-third as many pike perch eggs were received as in the 

 previous year. 



