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the result of tlie expedition, I will assume that all of tlie 78,000 eggs 

 reuiaiuing- after the deposit of 100,000 at Meredith did as well as those 

 sent to Massachusetts, of which not far from 40 per cent, reached the 

 end of their artificial nurture and were set free. In this way we obtain 

 31,200 as the number of free young salmon. Adding- to this the number 

 that came from the Meredith lot of eggs, 1,000, we have a total of 

 32,200 young salmon as the net result of the expedition. 



5. — OPERATIONS IN 1869. 



Owing to causes that it is unnecessary for me to discuss, Mr. Stone 

 was obliged to abandon his enterprise on the Miramichi. Mr. Joseph 

 E. Goodfellow, however, collected in October, 1809, a lot of eggs, 

 and sold them to the commissioners of Vermont. They were deposited 

 in the hatching-troughs between the 20th and 24th of October, and 

 remained there until the first week in December. They were then 

 packed up in moss, in baskets, and sent to Vermont. After a series 

 of mishaps, which prolonged the period occupied in transportation 

 to three weeks and four days, they reached Chester, Vt., and were 

 placed in Professor Hager's hatching-troughs. The whole number of 

 eggs was 50,000, and the loss in transportation and incubation was es- 

 timated at 20 per cent., leaving 40,000 young fry, all of which hatched 

 between the 1st and 15th of February. The water had a temperature 

 of 45° F., and was so pure that no. filtering was necessary. Not over 

 100 died during the absorption of the yolk-sack. From the 10th of May 

 till the 1st of July they were fed regularly, and but few died. The 

 whole lot was in Jul}' placed in Williams and West Rivers.* The num- 

 ber set at liberty is put down at 30,000. 



6. — OPERATIONS IN 1870. 



The spring bf 1870 witnessed the first introduction of salmon from 

 Lake Ontario. The establishment of Mr. Samuel Wilmot, at New- 

 castle, Ontario, started originally in 1866 as a private experiment, had 

 attained such importance as to attract the attention of the Canadian 

 government, and induce the department of marine and fisheries to 

 assume the responsibility of carrying it on, for the general purpose of 

 improving the fisheries of the Dominion. 



The difficulties in the way of getting spawn from the maritime prov- 

 inces induced the commissioner of fisheries of the State of Maine to 

 apply to the superintendent of the Newcastle establishment for a small 

 number of salmon-eggs. The application was referred to the depart- 

 ment and was granted ; and henceforth the sale of eggs became one o^ 

 the objects of the establishment. The price of salmou-eggs was fixed 

 at $40, in gold, per thousand. As compared with all previous rates, this 

 was high. The price paid Mr. Stone by the States of New Hampshire 

 * Letter of Prof. A. D. Hager. 



