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PROPAGATION OF SCHOODIC SALMON IN 1879-'80. 



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where I suppose it will receive pretty pure lake water, the brook water 

 following the shore and running over the conduit. This brook is the 

 same that runs by the old hatching-house, whose discharge it receives, 

 but in the half mile between the two houses it runs most of the way 

 through peaty bogs and alder swamps and receives the drainage of sev- 

 eral potato fields and stable yards, for which reasons we shut it out 

 from the stream house. 



December 1. — On November 27 and 30 and to-day I have examined 

 lots 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 with especial reference to their impregnation, 

 with following results : 



This is strictly correct as far as it goes, each egg having been closely 

 scrutinized, and in the case of the larger lots, as 2 and 6, samples for 

 examination were taken from 14 to 23 different parts of the lot. 



December 3. — At 4.30 a. m. leave Grand Lake Stream for Bucksport. 

 W. H. Munson, as usual, is left in charge of the eggs. 



January 3, 1880. — Arrived from Bucksport last night about 12 o'clock. 

 I find to-day that everything is in good order. 



The eggs in the old hatching- house all show colored eyes, pretty dark 

 in the earliest ones, very light in the others, being just discernible. I 

 measure the volume of water flowing and find it to be 10.8 gallons. 

 About 1£ gallons of this comes from the new aqueduct, the rest from 

 the brook and spring. Mr. Munson says this is the lowest stage of 

 the water at this house since I left, a month ago. For the most part 

 the faucets have been running very full ; it has dropped off only within 

 a few days. At time of the heavy rains the aqueduct water was very 

 muddy and had to be turned off; in fact it was not turned into the hatch- 

 ing-troughs at all until after that. The brook was somewhat muddy 

 (not very), and was turned off for a short time. The spring gave a 

 great abundance of clear water through all the rains. 



January 0, 1880. — Made first shipment of spawn to-day. The mode 

 of packing has not been essentially changed since this establishment 

 was first opened. We have, however, discontinued the use of saw- 

 dust as a material for outside packing. This year we have a supply of 

 dry moss and dry leaves. The cases always leave the hatching-house 

 about half past two in the afternoon, are taken by Princeton, 12 miles, 



