[31] PROPAGATION OF WHITEFISH AT NORTHVILLE, micu. 583 
ary 14, Tahoe Lake, 100,000; March 25, to Judge McShalter, Warm 
County, 2,500; total, 247,500. 
“The temperature of the water in which the whitefish were hatched 
was about 54°, ranging from 51° to 56°. The first lot of 250,000 came 
in splendid order, better than any ever before received from the East. 
After being put into the water and during the hatching, also up to and 
including the last shipment, the loss did not exceed 14 per cent. Most 
of them hatched out very soon after being put into the hatching baskets, 
but were vigorous and shy, and at the end of one week began to eat 
pounded-up crab which they were fed on. They appeared to be very 
fond of this, taking in their mouths pieces of the fiber a quarter of an 
inch long, swimming around trying to swallow it. The white meat of the 
crab could be seen in their stomachs through their transparent bodies. 
“The last lot of 250,000 whitefish eggs arrived (being delayed, I sup- 
pose) in very bad condition, all the top layers rotten and smelling 
badly. Of those put into the water only a few hatched out (four or five 
thousand), and in a very sickly condition. These few would not eat, 
and at the end of three weeks they were quite attenuated, with their 
heads and gills covered with fungus. During the hatching and feeding 
time of the first lot the water was quite muddy, so much so that the 
little fish could hardly see their food.” 
NEVADA.—February 3, a case containing 25,000 eggs was forwarded 
to Mrs. H. C. Fenstermaker, a lady considerably interested in piscicul- 
ture, residing at Eureka, Nev.; but for some unaccountable reason no 
word has ever been received as to whether they reached their destina- 
tion or not. Three letters of inquiry have failed to evoke any response. 
PENNSYLVANIA.—One hundred thousand eggs, packed as usual, were 
shipped February 12 to Corry, Pa., with the following results, embraced 
in a communication from the Hon. Hendrick B. Wright: 
“The eges arrived safely at Corry and were hatched and the fry de- 
livered to me on the 18th instant. I succeeded in putting some 70,000 
of them in my lake in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, so that the mat- 
ter is, so far, asuccess. The lake where they were deposited is known 
as Harvey’s Lake, containing about 1,000 acres, ten miles in circumfer- 
ence, and in places over a hundred feet deep; it is pure spring water, 
and about 1,000 feet above the sea level.” 
Two small packages, each containing about 500 eggs, were sent by » 
mail to Mr. John Ryder, Academy of Sciences, Philadelphia, but eggs 
were all dead when received by Mr. Ryder. 
The results of shipping eggs of the whitefish the present season, as 
well as of moving them much greater distances in previous seasons, 
have demonstrated beyond a doubt that they can be transported to the 
most distant points of the globe with almost absolute certainty of a suc- 
cessful issue, provided the proper limits of temperature are guarded, 
and the eggs are not too far advanced when shipped. The essential 
conditions as to the means of securing the maintenance of the proper 
degree of moisture and of the admittance of air, can be so completely 
