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about 600,000 eggs from the Potomac. Later, Mr. Ferguson 

 established a station in the vicinity of Havre de Grace, where 

 there were hatched about three or four million. Again, in the 

 Connecticut, at Holyoke, we had bad weather in that direction. 

 The temperature got to be very high in July, so that the 

 water of the Connecticut reached the temperature of 86° which 

 is entirely too warm for any success with shad. The eggs 

 died in the boxes, but the work began again and was carried on 

 until August 5th. The distribution was not near as extensive 

 as it wotdd have been if we could have got the supply of fish- 

 eggs that we needed. There were altogether seventy-two or 

 seventy-three applications from members of Congress, governors 

 of States, and citizens from all parts of the country ; and we 

 made about thirty-one or thirty-two shipments of shad. The 

 most extreme southern point was in Louisiana ; the most 

 northerlv point was in Connecticut ; and western, we went to the 

 Des Moines River, where the success of the shad fishery has 

 become thorough* established. The first shipment made there 

 was made under the auspices of the California Commission, by 

 Seth Green, in 187 1, Since then the United States has made two 

 shipments, and every year we have taken more and more of those 

 shad. There is no mistake about the identity of the fish, because 

 specimens have been preserved and carefully examined. 



Mr. Wilmot : Have any of your researches extended as far 

 as the Bay of Fundv, with regard to shad ? 



Prof. Milner : No, they have not. 



Mr. Wilmot : It is the intention of the Canadian Govern- 

 ment to produce shad in that section of the country, but the 

 inhabitants say that the shad do not breed there at all, and only 

 come there for breeding purposes. I wish to get information 

 before we commence operations. 



Prof. Milner : My knowledge extends only as far as the 



