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In 1910, the young lobsters were liberated at the following places, 

 East Shore Conanicut Island, West Shore Conanicut Island, Mill 

 Cove (Wickford), Poplar Point, Gould Island, Hope Island, Fox 

 Island, Mount Hope Bay, Warwick Neck, Sakonnet River, and Block 

 Island. 



Special mention may be made of the following results of the 

 season's work: 



7,465 IV'S FROM ONE EGG LOBSTER. 



On June 30 two egg lobsters, carrying an average number of eggs, 

 were put in one of our rearing cars. When examined, the next day, it 

 was found that nearly half of the eggs had hatched from each of them. 

 The egg lobsters were accordingly removed, and the paddles started. 

 By July 16, the fry had passed into the fourth stage, and careful 

 counting showed that there were 7,465 of them. This result is very 

 important, as the care given this lot was the same as that accorded 

 to other lots and therefore may be taken as an average result which 

 may be obtained. The number of fry started with corresponds with 

 the number that would hatch from one egg lobster. One-half of the 

 eggs from two lobsters were used in order to have the resulting fry of 

 the same age. The eggs of most lobsters vary somewhat in time of 

 hatching. While very often as many as one-half will hatch on the 

 first day, the remaining eggs will not hatch for several days. At 

 Wickford this fact is given great prominence, because of the canni- 

 balistic tendencies of the fry, and therefore the egg lobsters are left 

 not longer than one day in a single car. Taking this result, therefore , 

 as an average possibility, we see that our present method is capable 

 of rearing about 7,500 from an average size egg lobster, or about 40 

 per cent, of the entire hatching. Our best previous result, was an 

 average of 1,516 per lobster from 56 egg lobsters. 



69.4 PER CENT. OF iv's FROM 10,000 I's. 



Another important result was the rearing of 6,946 fourth stage 

 lobsters from a counted lot of 10,000 fry less than one day old. This 



