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be safe to reckon 2,030 per tray; that would increase our estimate 14 
per cent. 
We have now by our original reckoning, 1,574,000 eggs; on a basis of 
2,030 per tray we should add 23,610—making 1,597,610. 
Blodgett counted the eggs of a large female on yesterday’s record and 
found 1,950. 
Munson tells me of having discovered a copious spring about half 
a mile back from the old hatching house; the water from it flows in the 
other direction, and he thinks the land is ‘too flat” to bring it to the 
hatching house. 
Now that we are threatened with a very large crop of eggs, I am be- 
ginning to consider the facilities existing within our reach for the hatch- 
ing out of the 25 per cent. reserve. The trough-room in the old hatching 
house will hardly suffice for the hatching of 300,000; indeed I think 
250,000 quite enough; that is what we had last winter. We could put 
in extra troughs on the floor so as to accommodate, say, another 100,000 
or 150,000 by occupying the aisles. But this would be very inconven- 
ient, and it would be much better to put all the extra troughs outside 
the present building, under a temporary roof. It would also be practi- 
cable to put in a house near the east spring. 
But after all is it desirable to hatch these fish out here in the woods? 
The carrying them out to the stream is a laborious job, and very un- 
pleasant in fly and mosquito time. It goes on so slowly, too, that when 
we have a large number of fish we can hardly get them out in sea- 
son except by putting on an extra force, and that would necessitate 
the employment of a less careful man than Munson. Munsonsays that 
he brought them all out last year by hand in tin pails pretty nearly full, 
I suppose holding two gallons of water each. In each pail he took, he 
guesses, about 500 and made eight trips per day. Thus with two pails 
a trip it would take 500 trips and over sixty-two days to carry out the 
500,000 young fish which we hope to turn out next spring. 
I am anxious to save part of this labor and risk, and am thinking of 
putting in a hatching house, cheap and temporary, near Forbes’ Cove, 
into which I can lead the water near at hand; and also the spring back 
of Calligan’s house if at some future time it appears worth while. 
November 17.—To-day we overhauled pound 5, containing the unripe 
fish on hand trom ecatchings previous to.to-day. Wetook alarge quantity 
of eggs. Having now spawned all but 154 of our females, we are going 
to proceed immediately to boat the spent fish up the lake. This even- 
ing madea beginning by taking up two boat loads (one trip) to a point 
on the west shore nearly opposite Half Moon Island. They were turned 
out on a shore of cobblestone. We have discussed carrying them to 
Mayberry Cove, and all think it would be a fine place to let them out, but 
apparently it is too far. 
Last year the fish were all taken up on the other shore and let loose 
near Munson’s Island. Munson tells me of a deep cove, where part of 
