Fish Culturists* y A ssociation. 



Brook Trout streams can be restocked again. As an incident 

 I will cite an interesting experiment. Four years ago last 

 summer, Mr. Charles Upton, President of the City Bank of 

 Rochester, bought a barren trout stream which he wished to 

 restock with Brook Trout. In the Spring of 1872, I put in 

 4-,000 Brook Trout Fry. During the Summer it could be seen 

 that the stream was alive with the little fellows. The next 

 Summer Mr. Upton began fishing for them. He would drive 

 out occasionally after banking hours, and his take would be 

 from fifty to one hundred during the afternoon. The next 

 season, when they were three years old, his smallest take was 

 twenty and his largest sixty ; and last season, when they were 

 four years old, his lowest take in an afternoon was five, and his 

 highest nineteen, many of them weighing a pound each. This 

 I consider a perfect success. 



Of Salmon Trout we shall have about 3,000,000, to dis- 

 tribute, and we will have enough to fill all our orders liber- 

 ally. They are all hatched at present, and are doing finely. 

 They are an excellent fish, and there are more of our little 

 lakes suitable for this kind than any other one kind we have 

 for distribution. 



The White Fish Interests are being looked into this season 

 to a greater extent than ever before. The Michigan Fish Com- 

 missioners made an arrangement with me last Fall to put the 

 Holton Hatching Box in their hatching house at Detroit. As 

 a consequence, 1 sent one of my assistants, Mr. Oren Chase, to 

 Detroit, who put the boxes in, and he now has over 8,000,000 

 White Fish spawn nearly to the hatching point, taken by my 

 brother, Mr. M. A. Green. When I say 8,000,000, I mean 

 8,000,000, and not one spawn less. The art of taking and 

 hatching White Fish spawn is a special branch of fish culture, 

 and a business by itself. A man may be well educated in the 

 art of taking and hatching the spawn of other fishes, and if he 



