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A NEW HATCHERY. 



BV HERSCPIEL WHITAKER. 



In America where the different governments, state 

 and national, are continually branching out into new 

 work, the mere fact of the construction and equipment 

 of a new hatchery would scarcely create comment 

 among fish culturists, and were it not for some reason, 

 other than the mere statement of the fact, that Michigan 

 is about to open a new and complete hatching station, 

 I should not challenge your attention to the fact. There 

 are, however, conditions in the environment of the lo- 

 cality of this new station, which make it somewhat 

 unique, and I trust a brief statement of the opening of 

 the new hatching station for the propagation of food 

 and crame fish at Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, will be of 

 sufficient interest to at least challenge something more 

 than passing notice. 



At what may be practically called the foot of Lake 

 Superior, the waters of the lake plunge over a dyke of 

 sandstone, creating a rapid of nearly a mile in length, 

 with a fall of about i8 feet. The river at this point is 

 nearly a mile in width, and the sandstone dyke forms 

 the lip of an immense natural beaker of the purest 

 water in the world, over which pours the surplus water 

 collected in that great lake basin. 



The temperature of the lake at twenty or thirty feet 



