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from tlie bill above, a spring iuto another building near by, and fitted 

 it for Latching. This water passes into the upper story of the older 

 hatchery, and, after being used there, flows into the ponds. 



The work at the station was begun on January 1, 1883, by the joint 

 operations of the United States and the New York fishery commission- 

 ers, and has been continued by both commissions since. The grounds 

 were given, rent free, by Mr. John D. Jones and his brothers, Town- 

 send, Samuel, and Edward, and the upper spring by Dr. O. L. Jones, 

 and in addition to this, Mr. Townsend Jones has given stone from the 

 Connecticut quarries to build a sea-wall to hold the tide at all times. 

 Two old buildings have been fitted up as hatcheries, and the work done 

 in the short space of time will bear close inspection and comparison 

 with older establishments. 



In the freshwater department the present capacity of the house has 

 been nearly taxed by the hatching of 500,000 salmon, 10,000 land locked 

 salmon, 38,000 rainbow trout, 50,000 European trout, and 1,000,000 

 whitefish. The fact that the European trout were in five different lots, 

 which will be enumerated further on, rendered it necessary to place 

 them in separate troughs, even though as small a lot as 2,000, taken 

 from one English stream, were kept separate in a trough which could 

 just as well have accommodated 30,000. The whitefish table will hatch 

 4,000,000 as well as 1,000,000, so that at present we can say that the 

 capacity of the hatcheries is 800,000 salmon and 4,000,000 whitefish. 

 This can be increased, if necessary. 



DIVISION OF EXPENSES OF THE WORK TO JUNE 1, 1883. 



From January 1 to June 1 the U. S. Fish Commission paid my salary, 

 and that of my assistants for April and May. During the winter I em- 

 ployed one man at $1.50 per day, and two girls at 50 cents. The girls 

 were very handy at picking out eggs, but the |)lace was too cold and 

 the snows too deep for them to work out-doors. The U. S. Fish Com- 

 mission also paid the transportation on the fry of salmon and land- 

 locked salmon to the Adirondacks and to Salmon Eiver, Oswego County, 

 and sent a hatching-table and sixteen McDonald hatching jars, com- 

 pletely rigged with glass and rubber tubes and a supply pipe with the 

 peculiar brass cocks used with these jars. During the season of 

 188o-'84 the division of expense was much the same, the State of New 

 York paying for improvements on the grounds in making ponds, grad- 

 ing, &c., and in building a large salt-water pond where the tide is held 

 by a floodgate at low water and from which it is pumped into a reser- 

 voir on the hill and then led into the hatchery in iron pipes, some of 

 which are galvanized and others are covered with coal-tar. 



BROOK TROUT (SALVELINUS FONTINALIS). 



Our native brook trout were formerly abundant in the ponds on this 

 place, but owing to a lack of j)rotectiou they were very scarce when the 



