78 U. S. BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



The outcome of the first season's operations at this point was en- 

 couraging, nearly 250,000 eggs being taken from the 1,200 yearling 

 fish comprising the brood stock. The fish had been well fed, and as 

 regards both quality of eggs and number secured the results were far 

 better than at Roaring River. The total cost of the work to the 

 bureau was less than $115, and its share of the proceeds was 96,000 

 fingerling trout Nos. 2 and 2|, all of which were liberated in waters 

 in the eastern section of the State. One of the most advantageous 

 features of the work in this field is the saving effected in distribu- 

 tion cost, as the stocking of these waters with fish produced at Neosho 

 station would necessarily involve heavy transportation expenses. 



GREER SPRINGS (MO.) SUBSTATION. 



This field station, also operated for the first time during the 

 year, is located on land belonging to L. E. Dennig, of Oregon 

 County, Mo., who desires the cooperation of the bureau in develop- 

 ing here a source of supply for rainbow-trout eggs. Apparently 

 there is nothing to interfere with the success of this undertaking, 

 as the flow of spring water is abundant, amounting to approximately 

 204,000,000 gallons per 24 hours, and the site appears to be well 

 suited to fish culture in other respects. 



Under the agreement effected with the owner the bureau is to 

 supply not less than 50,000 rainbow-trout eggs annually, to be 

 hatched and reared at his expense in pools which he has constructed, 

 half the product in fingerling fish to be distributed locally and the 

 other half to be at the disposal of the owner. Of the 70,000 finger- 

 ling fish resulting from 100,000 eggs developed at this point during 

 the spring 30,000 were planted as fingerlings No. 1| in Greer Springs 

 Branch late in March. The remainder was held to the No. 2+ 

 fingerling size and liberated early in June. 



LANGDON (KANS.) SUBSTATION. 



At this place, about 35 miles east of Hutchinson, Ivans., the bureau 

 recently leased from Eugene Catte a pond system approximately 

 6-J- acres in area which had been successfully employed by him in 

 past years in the production of black bass, bream, and crappie. These 

 ponds having recently been used for goldfish culture, no brood fish of 

 the various species desired were available, hence collections had to be 

 made from wild fish and transfers arranged for from other stations 

 of the bureau. By the 1st of April a brood stock consisting of 366 

 black bass, 391 sunfish, 425 crappie, and 58 rock bass had been as- 

 sembled and installed in the ponds. Nesting and rearing activities 

 progressed favorably to the close of the year, though some of the 

 stock was lost during a heavy rain that flooded the pond early in 

 June, washing away considerable numbers of fry and fingerlings. 

 Owing to shortage of funds no distributions could be made from 

 these ponds prior to the close of the fiscal year. 



There are 13 other ponds belonging to farmers in the vicinity of 

 Langdon, and with these men an agreement has been effected 

 whereby the bureau is to collect at stated intervals the fish they are 

 able to produce in their ponds, paying for them at a stipulated 

 price per thousand. 



