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lem it had set itself to solve. At the Corry hatchery the 

 series of ponds necessary to complete that hatchery were 

 partly constructed of reinforced concrete in the best 

 manner laid out by contract, thus insuring expert 

 work. The contracts for the erection of the hatching 

 house and the remaining ponds necessary to complete the 

 hatchery have also been made, and the department hopes 

 by next fall to have one of the most complete, if not the 

 most complete trout hatchery in the United States. The 

 water supply is ample and of the best quality. The lay 

 of the ground is exactly suited for the construction of 

 the ponds and the output from this hatchery ought, for 

 several years, to be fully equal to any demand which may 

 be put upon it. 



The Wayne County hatchery is situated in the north- 

 eastern part of the Commonwealth, in the region which 

 abounds with lakes that might be said to be breeding 

 ponds for the propagation of such fish as pickerel, yellow 

 perch, sunfish and bass. The capabilities of this hatch- 

 ery for the furnishing of these fish is limited only by the 

 amount of money that the State will appropriate for the 

 purpose of field work, which is the name the Department 

 gives to the work of gathering spawn and young fish 

 from the various lakes and ponds. 



The Department has secured the rights to a former 

 reservoir of the Delaware and Hudson Canal, which has 

 a water surface of several hundred acres, to be used as 

 a bass pond, and this is supplemented by several ponds 

 of varying sizes, which will be used as breeding ponds. 

 The control of the reservoir gives the hatchery the con- 

 trol of the water, so that at no time will there be any 

 danger of shortage of water. The facilities for raising 

 trout at this hatchery are fully equal to any demands 

 upon it in that section of the State. A new hatching 

 house of the substantial character spoken of above will 

 be erected this year at the Wayne hatchery, and it is 

 hoped to have it in use this coming season. 



Another important output from the Wayne hatchery 

 is bull-frogs, the tadpoles of which can be gathered in 



