REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



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purchased at the rate oi' 1 ceut jier pound for what they wouhl dress. 

 Blood was also utilized by mixing- it with cheap flour or meal and cook- 

 ing into pudding, which was ground up before being fed. This was 

 not taken very readily by the fish, however, and they did not appear to 

 thrive so well on it as upon meat or maggots. Experiments were also 

 made with canned herring spawn, shipped from the station at Havre 

 de Grace, Md. The rainbow trout fry ate it readily and throve upon it, 

 but the salmon and brook trout did not appear to relish it. The total 

 amount of the various kinds of food purchased during the year and 

 cost of same are shown by the accompanying statement : 



Kind of food. 



Butchers' offal. 

 Refuse meat... 

 Blood . 



Middlings . 

 Flour. 



Shorts 



Salt (2 bushels) . 



Horseflesh 



Beef carcasses.. 



Total 



This added to the miscellaneous expense for trucking, etc., amount- 

 ing to $76.40, makes the total cost offish food for the year $322.90. 



The maximum and minimum temperatures of the air and water, taken 

 at 2 p. m. during the year, were as follows: 



Hatchery, west 

 side. 



Head of north 

 stand. 



1894- July 



August 



September. 



October 



November . 



December . 

 1895— January . . . 



February . . 



Marcb 



April 



May 



June 



76 



73.5 



68.5 



62 



54 



38.5 



35.5 



35.5 



38 



51 



53 



36.5 



33 



32.5 



32 



33.5 



35.5 



50 



61 

 54 

 42.5 



60 



53.5 



38 



34.5 



34 



33 



35 



37.5 



50 



56 



Inches. 

 2.G 

 7.2 

 2.95 

 3.95 

 1.35 

 2.55 

 2.9 



2.1 



3.25 

 1.15 

 1.6 



St. JoriNSBURY Station, Vermont (J. W. Titcomh, SuPKiiixTKNOENT). 



During the previous fiscal year a dam was built across Sleeper Kiver, 

 trees were cleared away from the line of the proposed water pipe, si)ring 

 brooks were ditched and bridged, a driveway was built to the railroad, 

 a side track constructed by the St. Johnsbury and Lake Cliami)laiu 

 Railroad Company on the west side of tlie station property, and grading 

 was done for a site for the superintendent's house and stable. The 

 stable was comi)leted May 19, 1894, and at the close of the fiscal year 

 the hatchery was nearly finished. On August 1, 1894, the building was 



