348 Fourth Annual Eeport of the 



The brook trout eggs averaged a higli percentage in hatching, 

 but when they reached the fingerling size a sudden rise in the 

 temperature of the water killed many of them. 



The greenback herring eggs from Sodus Point gave the best of 

 results. We received 140 quarts of yellow perch eggs from Mr. 

 E. C. Brown, of Copake, N. Y., in exchange for brook trout and 

 greenback herring. 



The Pennsylvania Commissioner of Fisheries gave us 1,000,000 

 shad fry in exchange for pike perch eggs from the Oneida station. 

 These fry were placed in our rearing ponds and cared for the 

 same as usual, and, when liberated early in September, some of 

 them had attained a length of six inches. 



Very little repair work has been done this season. I was sent 

 to the new hatchery at Ogdensburg on May 1st, and after July 

 15th only one man was left in charge of the Linlithgo station. — 

 Reported hy Wallace D. Rhines, Foreman, Linlithgo, N. Y. 



Oneida Station 



On November 12 to 20, 1913, we obtained fifty-one quarts of 

 tullibee eggs from Oneida lake. During that time we had a heavy 

 " blow," lasting three days, which did considerable damage to all 

 nets. On November 21st we received instructions to stop fishing 

 as we would obtain 463 quarts of whitefish eggs from Old Forge. 

 This made a total of 514 quarts of eggs in the hatchery. 



All of these eggs were in fine condition and showed very little 

 fungus at any time during the winter. They commenced to hatch 

 April 1, 1914. 



From the tullibee eggs we planted 3,250,000 fry in Oneida lake 

 and sent 2,000,000 fry to applicants. Of the whitefish fry 13,- 

 328,000 were liberated in Oneida lake and the balance, 3,000,000, 

 were shipped to applicants. 



On April 1, 1914, we commenced to fish for pikeperch. From 

 April 10th to 23d we collected 642 quarts of eggs from 1,581 

 females, using 5,639 males to fertilize the eggs. Eggs of this 

 species amounting to 366 quarts were shipped to Caledonia, Cold 

 Spring Harbor, Linlithgo and the Pennsylvania Commission ; the 

 remaining 277 quarts were placed in the hatchery jars. 



