REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



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purchased at the rate ot 1 cent per pound for what they would 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 b}^ 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 si)awn, shipped from the station at Havre 

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

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

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

 cost of same are shown by the accompanjiug statement: 



Kind of food. 



Butchers' otfnl. 

 Refuse meat. . . 

 Blood 



Middlings 



Flour 



Shorts 



Salt (2 bushels) 



Horseflesh 



Beef carcasses. 



Total 



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

 ing to $76.40, makes the total cost of flvsh food for the year $322.96. 



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

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



Month. 



1894^ July ...... 



August . . . 



September 



October 



November 



December . 

 1895 — January . . 



February . 



March 



April 



May 



June 



Max. Min 



93 



85.5 



82 



66 



56.5 



48.5 



44.5 



37 



47 



63 



58 

 59 

 57 



42.5 

 16 

 12 

 8 

 — 4 

 17.5 

 35.5 

 43 

 53 



Water. 



Hatchery, west 

 side. 



Max. 



Min. 



76 



73.5 



68.5 



62 



54 



38.5 



35.5 



35.5 



38 



51 



68 



74 



70 



66.5 



62 



53 



36.5 



33 



32.5 



32 



33.5 



35.5 



50 



61 



Heail of north 

 stand. 



Max. Min. 



70.5 



70 



66.5 



61 



54 



42.5 



38 



38 



48 



52 



66 



69 



63 



63 



60 



53.5 



38 



34.5 



34 



33 



35 



37.5 



50 



56 



Snow. 



Inches. 



11 



13 

 27 

 28 

 8.5 



Eain. 



Inches. 

 2.G 

 7.2 

 2.95 

 "3.95 

 1.35 

 2.55 

 2.9 



2.1 

 3.25 

 1.15 

 1.6 



St. Johnsbury Station, Vermont (J. \V. Titcomb, Superintendent). 



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

 trees were cleared away from the line of the proposed water pipe, s]>ring 

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

 a side track constructed by the St. Johnsbury and Lake Champlain 

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

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

 stable was completed May 19, 1894, and at the close of the fiscal year 

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



