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EEMAIIKS ON KEPORT. 



Percentage of loss, about 13 per cent. 



Average temperatures: a. m., 73.2°; p. m., 78°: total average 75.0°. 

 Percentage of ripe shad to fish taken, 171 ; average number of spawn 

 per fish, 17,009. 



3.— REPORT ON THE TRANSFER OF SHAD FROM THE HUDSON RIVER 



TO THE SACRAMENTO. 



I By Livingston Stone. 



Charlestown, N. H., December 1, 1873. 

 Sir: I beg leave to present herewith a report of my operations in 

 carrying live shad from the Hudson Eiver to California, and in procuring 

 the eggs of the Sacramento salmon for distribution into various waters 

 of the United States. 



I have the honor to be, your obedient servant, 



LIVINGSTON STONE. 



Hon. Spencer F. Baird, 



United States Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries. 



EEPORT. 



On the 9th of June, 1873, the day after the loss of the California 

 aquarium car in the Elkhorn Eiver, Nebraska, I received at Omaha a 

 telegram from you, instructing me to return East with my men, and take 

 a load of live shad to the Pacific coast. As soon as was practicable I 

 reported to you at Washington, and immediately after began prepara- 

 tions for the overland jouruey with the shad. Your instructions were 

 to procure the supply of shad from Mr. Monroe Green, at the New York 

 State Hatching-Works, at Castleton, on the Hudson. Accordingly, 

 when everything was ready I proceeded to Mr. Green's camp with my 

 two assistants, Mr. Willard T. Perrin and Mr. Myron Green. Mr. Mon- 

 roe Green had a sufficient number of shad on hand at the right age for 

 the journey, and at about 5 o'clock on the afternoon of the 25 th of 

 June we left the shad-hatching camp for the Castleton railroad-station, 

 with eight cans, containing in all eighty gallons of water and 10,000 

 shad. Mr. Welsher, of Seth Green's force, accompanied us as far as 

 Omaha. We reached Albany safely, and left that city at 1.10 p. m., on 

 the New York Central Eailroad, going west. 



In carrying live shad, it is considered necessary to give them a change 

 of fresh water every two hours. W^ accordingly took on reserves of 

 water, for the purpose of making these changes at Albany, Utica, Syra- 

 cuse, Rochester, Buffalo, Dunkirk, Erie, Painesville, Cleveland, Illyria, 

 Edgerton, Elkhart, and South Bend, arriving at Chicago Friday morn- 

 ing, June 27, with the fish in good order. The temperature of the water 



