738 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. [6] 



4. — Extracts from Diary at Grand Lake Stream, 1879-'80. 



Grand Lalce Stream, September 2, 1879. — Munson says that he came up 

 on the 20th of August, and that day noted the water to be 3 feet 3 

 inches on our mark above the dam, there being at the time a strong 

 north wind. To-day, with a calm, I find it to be 2 feet 8£ inches. (But 

 a small part of this difference is probably owing to the wind.) Mr. 

 Munson had also observed a fall. The rain of August 17 and 18 un- 

 doubtedly caused a temporary rise. 



Fish are now running on the stream. Haycock and Emerson fishing 

 to-day and yesterday, took 7 — all of them on the stream ; tried the 

 lake in vain. 



Temperature of water in old hatching-house (in the woods near the 

 "Milford Turnpike," an unfinished road) is 48° at 11 a. m; of Low's 

 spring, just afterwards, 49° ; but the sun was shining into the latter a 

 little. 



Munson has just finished getting in moss. Got 187 bushels dry and 

 100 bushels wet — all from a bog near the Princeton road, about two 

 miles distant. (The moss was all Sphagnum. Drying was effected by 

 spreading it on dry ground, exposed to sun and' wind.) 



Munson says that the past spring and summer the fishing was not 

 quite so good as usual. The weather was cold, backward, and stormy 

 until the season was well advanced. He thinks a good many have run 

 through into the stream lately. 



September 3. — Water at old hatching-house, at 6 a. m., 47£° F. In 

 the stream at cottage, at 7 a. in., 66£°; at 4 p. m. (day sunny and 

 warm), 69£° F. 



I have estimated the volume of water at the old hatching-house, thus: 

 4 faucets, each fill a two-quart dish in 13 seconds; 2 others in 11 seconds 

 each; 7th faucet and waste in about 40 seconds; this gives a total of 

 1G.116 gallons per minute. From Low's spring I find, by same method, 

 a flow of 2£ gallons per minute. 



Low's spring by measurement to-day I find to be 20 feet 6 inches 

 above the bank of Grand Lake Stream, 31 feet above the surface of the 

 stream below the dam, and 28 feet 3 inches above the present level of 

 Grand Lake. Its distance from the bank is about 662 feet, and from 

 the water's edge about 686 feet. 



Mr. Ferguson to-day caught 8 Schoodic salmon far down the stream. 

 Six of them weigh as follows, respectively, viz : 2 pounds 9 ounces, 2 

 pounds 9 ounces, 2 pounds 3 ounces, 1 pound 8 ounces, 1 pound 15 

 ounces, 2 pounds 12 ounces. They thus average 2 pounds 4 ounces. 

 Mr. Munson thinks the general average during the fishing season was 

 fully equal to this. With the salmon Mr. Ferguson took a chub weigh- 

 ing 1 pound 3 ounces. 



September 19. — Eeturned from Bucksport yesterday. Mr. Munson 

 reports that since my last visit (first week in September) the fish 

 (Schoodic salmon) have continued to run into the stream. Both he and 



