REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. LVII 



The eggs arrived at the station in excellent condition. They com- 

 nieuced hatching on March 28 and 32,000,000 were planted daring the 

 months of April and May, as follows: 



After completing the distribution and placing the station in order, 

 Mr. Downing, the foreman, was detached and ordered to Woods Hole, 

 and Mr. Thayer, fish-cultnrist, to North ville. The station was placed in 

 charge of a watchman to the close of the year. 



QuixcY Station, Illinois (S. P. Bartlett, Superintendent). 



Indications in June seemed favorable for a successful season's work, 

 as the winter had been an open one and the bass and crappie spawned 

 early. Three carloads of tish were distributed between July 6 and 22 to 

 applicants in Minnesota, Dakota, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Mississippi, 

 but heavy rains occurred on July 25, which stopped all work until Sep- 

 tember 10, when it was resumed and continued until November. 



In addition to the fishes furnished to applicants, collections of breed- 

 ers were made for the Wytheville and Neosho stations and for the Fish 

 Commission ponds, Washington, D. C. During the year the station 

 furnished for distribution the following adults and yearlings: 32,375 

 black bass, 3,418 crappie, 1,025 yellow perch, and 1,700 pickerel. In 

 addition to this outi^ut, immense numbers of the common fishes, such 

 as yellow i^erch, catfish, sunfish, and other indigenous species were 

 collected from overflowed lands and returned to the Mississippi and 

 Illinois rivers. 



During the winter the boiler-house built the previous year was 

 enlarged, all of the buildings were painted, and the boats and seines 

 were overhauled. Owing to continued high water during the si)ring no 

 collections of fry were made. 



Manchester Station, Iowa (R. S. Johnson, Superintendent). 



The superintendent assumed charge of the station in January. As 

 the work of .construction had not advanced sufficiently during the fall 

 to permit of the collection of trout eggs, consignments of lake and 

 rainbow trout eggs were sent from Northville and Neosho during the 

 winter. All of the fry resulting from them, with the exception of 2,500 

 of the rainbows, were distributed in the spring. These were reserved 

 to be reared for brood stock. Efforts were made to secure a stock of 

 bass as soon as the ponds were ready, but the first consignment of brood 

 fish received from Quincy developed fungus shortly after their arrival 



