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OPERATIONS AT NORTHVILLE AND ALPENA. 



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The whitefish eggs were carried forward iu hatching-jars, as usual, 

 and no special features attended their development. On November 28 

 about 30,000 eggs were taken from two whitelish from the pond of three- 

 year-olds raised at the Northville Station, and a fair percentage of im- 

 pregnation was obtained. The incident is worthy of record only from 

 the fact that it is doubtless the first* and only instance of the taking of 

 eggs from whitefish hatched and reared wholly by artificial treatment. 



Shipments of whitefish eggs from Northville Station, season o/1886-'87. 



Date. 



Destination. 



Number. 



1S86. 



Dec. 1 



29 



1887. 



Jau. 3 



5 



12 



15 



17 



19 



22 



20 



3 



9 



19 



•J 'J 



Feb. 



Delivered to car No. 3, Wilmington, Del 



Dr. E. G. Shortlidge, Wilmington, Del 



William Buller, Erie, Pa 



Charles R. Buckland, Sau Francisco, Cal., for New Zealand 



William Buller, Erie, Pa 



E. G. Blackford, "ew York, for London, England 



Fred Mather, Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y 



Central Station, Washington, D. C 



E. G-. Blackford, New York, for Germany 



Dr. R. O. Sweeny, Saint Paul, Minn 



Central Station, Washington, D. C 



Dr. R. O. Sweeny, Saint Paul, Minn 



E. G. Blackford, New York City, for London, England 



Dr. E. G. Shortlidge, Wilmington, Del 



Total 



100, 000 

 1, 000, 000 



5,D00, 000 

 1, 500, 000 

 5, 000, 000 

 1, 500, 000 



1, 001), 000 



2, 500, 000 



1, 000, 000 

 5, 000, 000 



2, 500, 000 

 5, 000, 000 

 1, 000, 000 



500, 000 



32, 600, 000 



Whitefish eggs began hatching at Northville on March 11, and the 

 last eggs were hatched on April 12. At Alpena the hatching season 

 commenced April 22 and closed May 8. The distribution from North- 

 ville was successfully made by car No. 2, in charge of George H. H. 

 Moore ; from Alpena, by steam-tugs and the regular lines of steamers. 

 The tables of distribution of whitefish fry during the spring of 1887 are 

 as follows : 



FROM NORTHVILLE STATION. 



Date. 



Lake. 



Place near which deposited. 



Number of 

 fry planted. 



1887. 

 Mar. 2 



Apr. 



Lake Michigan 

 Lake Huron . . . 

 Lake Michigan 



do 



Lake Erie 



Lake Michigan 

 Lake Ontario . . . 



Lake Erie 



do 



do 



Lake Michigan . 



Total 



Ludington, Mich 



Bay City, Mich 



Grand Haven, Mich 



Ludington, Mich 



Monroe, Mich 



Michigan City, Iud 



Oswego, N. Y 



North Bass Island, Ohio. 



Monroe, Mich 



Sandusky, Ohio 



Saint Joseph, Mich 



3, 000, 000 

 3, 000, 000 

 3, 000, 000 

 3, 000, 000 

 3, 000, 000 

 3, 000, 000 

 3, 000, 000 

 3, 000, 000 

 3, 000, 000 

 3, 000, 000 

 3, 000, 000 



33, 000, 000 



