80 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 
acclimated and successfully reproducing their kind, the experiment is 
not without interest. A portion of the 23,000 eggs perished and 10,000 
were shipped to the Green Lake Station, those remaining being applied 
to hatching. The resulting fry, estimated at 5,000, were represented 
by 2,000 survivors June 30,1893. Of the total of 2,010 surviving Atlan- 
tic salmon on hand as fingerlings June 30, 1892, from the hatching of 
305,000 eggs in April of that year, 1,100 were from eggs of the aceli- 
mated parents, and of the 1,448 subsequently liberated in November, 
696 were of this kind. At the date of the liberation referred to, as 
many as 500 were remaining as a reserve, but these were reduced to 
156 by the following June. 
Landlocked salmon.—From fish reared 9,300 eggs were taken in 
November, and from wild fish captured from Toddy Pond 4,200 were 
secured. It is believed that the spawning fish in Toddy Pond were the 
large ones liberated from the Craig Brook Station in the spring of 
1892. Egg losses were rather large. 
Brook trout.—Fourteen thousand eggs were taken from fish reared 
in station ponds. The hatching is shown in tabular statement. 
Rainbow trout.—The thirty adult fish held in ponds were reared at 
the station, having been hatched in 1889 from eggs received from the 
Northville Station, Michigan. In the spring of this year they, for the 
first time, evinced a tendency to spawn, eggs being taken March 15 
and 16 to the number of 10,000. The eggs were inferior, and during 
the year there were seventeen deaths among the brood stock. 
The statement below, based on close estimates, represents eggs of 
various species employed in hatching, and shows the results up to.a 
period when all except the rainbow trout were taking food: 
a Results in fry. 
A Number Z 
Kind. ROE 
°888- | Hatched.| May 31. | June 30. 
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PATH AM UIC SALMON «seme lee seis csteisinie = ciate elebeate leis lefeterecielavoterere ale 227,360 | 226, 800 | 7290, 000 257, 500 
‘Atlantic salmon acclimatizedsa. os. -2-ceciteelem olen sms eee 3, 400 6, 800 5, 00 2, 000 
TU ANOLOGKE Cas alm OFA eee ae mate eta se hater en ee aia eta oes ners alate 14, 000 11, 900 11, 000 7, 000 
JEON CF WROTE TS Mamie acon ace mo ace 6 SCC n ab aon OSE OIG JOUR DODae 13, 600 13, 300 10, 000 9, 000 
BEVAIM DOW LOU bac /aiajalc nteraeni=teiaininosie/niale stateterele)ate)= ste stpimi=ts ete teeter 10, 100 2, 000 1, 900 1, 000 
HOUR Ba SacBeobeEonostepcccmedconacosemaatooseacthatecs 278, 400 260, 800 | 317,900 276, 500 
a Increase effected by presentation, about June 1, of 84,000 by the Maine authorities. 
In July the growing of fly larvee was resumed, these with chopped 
meats comprising the food of the fish. Later in the summer experi- 
mental trials were made in the capture of grasshoppers, to determine 
their relative cost and food value, natural food having so far been found 
most desirable. 
Losses sustained in the preceding year, from the causes mentioned, 
among fishes to be subjected to rearing, were so great that the numbers 
remaining on hand at commencement of the year, July 1, 1892, were 
comparatively small, as follows: Atlantic salmon, 2,010; landlocked 
salmon, 19,538; brook trout, 39,531; whitefish, 442; total, 61,521. From 
these, distribution of 52,713 was made, as follows: 
