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son was provided with about 50,000 shad for the Ashtabula River, Ohio, 

 leaving on the same evening, while I took the train in the other direction. 



Returning to Camp Green, Mr. Welsher had arrived, and was informed 

 of the purposed shipment to California, which he was to accompany as 

 far as Omaba, Neb. 



Mr. Mason returned on the 25th, having put the fish, in good order, 

 into the Ashtabula River on the 24th ; Mr. Toombs, express-agent at 

 that point, having afforded him assistance in moving the sliad to the 

 river. 



In the evening Mr. Livingston Stone, with two assistants, arrived, and 

 also Mr. George H. Jerome, commissioner of fisheries for the State 

 of Michigan, desiring to take back a supply of young shad for his 

 State. Mr. Stone was supplied with cans, tubes, siphons, and pails, and 

 left the same evening for the Sacramento River with 40,000 shad, Mr. 

 Welsher accompanying him as far as Onmha. 



The sui^ply of young fish at the hatching-station had begun to fall 

 short, but few shad being taken at the fishery, and indications were 

 numerous thatthe season was drawing to aclose. Our claim for a supply of 

 shad for another shipment was waived in favor of Mr. Jerome, who got 

 away on the 26th with about seventy thousaud shad for the waters of 

 Michigan. 



14. — SHIPMENT OF SHAD TO THE WABASH RIVER, INDIANA. 



On the evening of the 28th Mr. Mason and I started for Logansport, 

 Ind., with four cans of shad, about forty thousand. The weather was 

 very warm, and we made use of a small quantity of ice in our reserve- 

 cans whenever the temperature of the water was above 67°. 



We arrived at Logansport at 8.50 a. m. of the 30th. Messrs. Bryer 

 and Hunt of the Logansport Journal generously interested themselves in 

 the work of moving the fish to the river, and Colonel Bringhurst, with a 

 knowledge of the character of the waters in the vicinity, selected a locality 

 in Eel River, a large tributary of the Wabash, into which the young shad 

 were put, in fine condition, and with scarcely any dead ones. 



We started for Castleton early in the evening, and arrived on July 2 to find 

 the station abandoned and the boxes and apparatus stored away until 

 another year. The season, as anticipated, had closed. 



Arranging unsettled matters^ and providing for the storage of some 

 surplus apparatus, we left the same evening for South Hadley Falls 

 Mass., Mr. Mason and Mr. Welsher joining me in Albany. 



At South Hadley Falls found Mr. 0. C. Smith superintending the 

 hatching-station for the Connecticut fish-commission. He had some 

 seventy boxes in operation, with eggs and shad in various stages of 

 development, and was taking from twenty to ninety spawners nightly, 

 affording large quantities of ova. 



Mr. Welsher had been sick during the trip, and, feeling worse, returned 

 home to Rochester, N. Y. 



