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of December, the circulation being at that time establislied in all the 

 fecund eggs. They were packed for transportation in tin boxes in layers 

 between wet moss. Each layer of eggs was placed between disks of 

 mosquito-netting stretched on rings of brass wire to facilitate the work 

 of packing and unpacking. The cans were inclosed in sawdust in the 

 usual way. The eggs were divided as follows : 



To Maine 21, 750 



To Massachusetts 21, 750 



To Couuecticut 21, 750 



To William Clift 5, 250 



Total shipped 70, 500 



The portion belonging to the State of Maine was placed for hatching 

 in the care of Crocket & Holmes, of Norway. They hatched out with a 

 trifling loss, and in the spring were turned into a small brook tributary 

 to the Little Androscoggin Kiver, which enters the main Androscoggin 

 just below Lewistou Falls. As the brook had been cleared of its trout 

 to supply the breeding-works of Messrs. Crockett «& Holmes, it is prob- 

 able that an unusually large proportion of the young salmon survived 

 the dangers that ordinarily attend them when turned out into open 

 waters. The eggs belonging to Massachusetts were hatched at the 

 State hatching-house in Winchester, and turned out remarkably well, 

 as exhibited by the following statement : 



Whole number sent 21, 750 



Died during transportation 289 



Died during incubation 141 



_ 430 



:N'umber hatched 21, 320 



Very few of these were lost, at least 21,000 good, healthy fish remain- 

 ing on hand when ready to turn out into the stream. The number of 

 deformed fish was small. Of the healthy fish 5,000 were put into a 

 small river on Cape Cod, and the remainder into the Peraigewassett 

 River, a tributary of the Merrimac* 



Of the eggs belonging to Connecticut, 4,579 were lost in transporta- 

 tion, hatching, and nurturing. The remainder, about 17,000, were dis- 

 tributed in various rivers, mostly tributaries of the Quinnebaug. t 



Of the 5,000 belonging to Mr. Clift, nearly all were hatched, and in May 

 were turned into Great Brook, the first large mill-stream tributary to 

 Long Island Sound east of the Thames River. | 



* Letter of E. A. Brackett. 



t Sixth Report of the Commissioners of Fisheries of the State of Connecticut, 1872, 

 pp. 26, 27,28. 

 t Letter of Rev. W. Clift. 



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