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also, that of the 20,000 hike trout eggs shipped from Northville, Decem- 

 ber 10, ''ouly 100 were dead." 



Mr. Eedding reported that the two lots of a quarter million each, 

 shipped December 23 and 24, arrived at San Leandro, Cal., ten days 

 later, in rather poor condition ; accounted for in part by their having 

 taken the Southern Pacific Eoad, which passes through a warmer cli- 

 mate, besides being four days longer in transit than if they had gone 

 over the Central Pacific. The third quarter -million lot, consigned fi'om 

 Northville January 3, arrived at San Leandro in very good condition. 

 Mr. "Woodbury, superintendent of the San Leandro hatchery, reported 

 the hatching of 90 per cent, of this lot, and about 35 per cent, of the 

 others, the fish being planted as follows : 



Jan. 19 — Donner and Tahoe Lakes 75,000 



30— Shafters Lake (Marin County) 5,000 



Feb. 1 — Clear Lake, Lake County 75,000 



March 7 — Concow Lake, Butte County 10,000 



4— Lake Tahoe, Placer County 100,000 



9— Clear Lake, Lake County 100,000 



10— Eadcliff Lake, Santa Cruz County 20,000 



11 — Lake Chabot, Alameda County 5,000 



390,000 



Mr. B. r. Shaw, Commissioner of Fisheries, reported that 75 per cent, 

 of the eggs sent him for the State of Iowa hatched, and that the minnows 

 were released in Lake Okibozi and Spirit Lake, Iowa. 



Mr. Feuton reported that the 10,000 eggs forwarded him for the State 

 of Connecticut arrived January 20, and upon opening the package about 

 2,000 of them were found frozen to death. The subsequent loss was a 

 little over 900, leaving about 7,000 fish, which were set free in Long 

 Lake, Litchfield County, Connecticut. 



Mr. Anderson, who had charge of the hatchery of the New Jersey 

 Commission, in which the eggs consigned to Mrs. Slack were developed, 

 reported that the eggs reached Bloomsburg February 3, at 4.39 p. m., 

 in very good condition. About 90 per cent, were hatched by the 11th 

 of February, or 90,000 fish in all, of which one-half were liberated in 

 Shepherd's Lake, and the remainder in Greenwood Lake. 



At the Northville hatchery the fish began hatching from the oldest 

 eggs January 27, and all were out by the 25th of February. At least 

 three-fourths of them hatched between the 6th and 12th of the latter 

 month, taxing the capacity of the receiving tanks to their utmost. Per- 

 forated tin boxes are fitted to these tanks near the overflows, to keep 

 the fish away from the currents at that point, which would be too strong 

 for them to resist. They are also provided with compartments which 

 are supposed to catch the shells; but while the fish were hatching so 

 freely, a suflicient number of shells would float over these divisions to 



