MILNER OX THE ARTIFICIAL CULTURE OF THE SHAD. 441 



spent shad, males and females, and it was decided to abandon the 

 attempt for the season. 



19.— SECOND SHIPMENT OP SHAD TO THE .WATERS OF LAKE CHAM- 

 PLAIN, VERMONT. 



On the 18th, receiving a favorable answer from South Hadley Falls 

 in reply to the inquirj^ whether young shad were still to be had, we 

 returned to that point on the 19th, and the same evening started for 

 Vergennes, Vt., with 100,000 shad, to be put into Otter Creek, a river 

 emptying into Lake Champhxin, seven miles below the town. Dr. Hop- 

 kins, a resident, afforded us assistance in conveying the cans to the 

 river and in finding a proper j)lace for turning them free in the waters, 

 which was done early on the morning of the 20th, there being scarcely 

 any loss in the cans. 



Kemaining in Vergennes during Sunday, we returned to the hatching- 

 station on the 21st, and fouiid that we should have to wait until the 

 next evening to obtain a supply of fish, which we*intended to take 

 through to Michigan. 



20. — SHIPMENT OF SHAD TO THE DETROIT AND GRAND RIVERS, MICH- 

 IGAN. 



On the afternoon of the 22d, with 100,000 shad in the cans, we started 

 for Detroit. At Toledo, Ohio, we were obliged to wait over about nine 

 hours, and arrived in Detroit on the 24th. Mr. George Clark, of Ecorse, 

 one of the State fish-commissioners, joined us before reaching Detroit, 

 and with his advice about 20,000 shad were put into the Detroit Kiver, 

 near the Detroit and Milwaukee Eailway depot, and the remaining 

 80,000 carried to Ionia, Mich., where they were put into the Grand 

 Eiver about midnight of the 24:th, being in vigorous condition, and with 

 but a small j)ercentage of loss. 



Mr. J . Mason returned home from Detroit, as this was the last shipment 

 of shad for the season. 1 desire to refer to him as a man of marked 

 fidelity and conscientious faithfulness to the work allotted him. To his 

 continued attention and skillful judgment in the care of the young fish 

 is due the success of the transfers just recorded, and though the lack of 

 the least fiiilure in the different shipments referred to might lead the 

 inexperienced to think it an easy task, there are many who have at- 

 tempted the work this season who would acknowledge that it was 

 anxious, toilsome, wearying work, resulting in failure and loss after 

 every effort possible was made to prevent it. 



