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FisH-CuxTURAL STATIONS OPERATED DuRiNG THE FiscAL Year 1917 — Continued. 



Early in the fiscal year an additional hatchery was added to the 

 number already in operation, through the acceptance of a donation 

 by Mrs. Mary A, ScuUy of a trout-hatching plant which had been 

 constructed and successfully operated as a private venture for some 

 years by her husband, the late John S. Scully, of Massachusetts. 

 This property consists of about 135 acres of land in the heart of the 

 Berkshire Hills, some 7 miles from Great Barrington, Mass., with 

 the ponds and buildings required for a complete trout hatchery. 

 A joint resolution of Congress, authorizing the Secretary of Com- 

 merce to accept the gift on behalf of the Government was signed 

 by the President on July 28, 1916, and shortly thereafter the Bureau 

 instituted active trout operations with the stock of fish included as 

 a part of the donation. 



DISTRIBUTION OF THE HATCHERY OUTPUT. 



The output of the hatcheries, planted under favorable conditions 

 and in well-considered places, reached every State and Alaska. The 

 commercial fishes were distributed for the most part in local waters, 



