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Androscoggin. I know they are taking the spawn there, and 

 while there, in 1874, we did not obtain any quantity of eggs. 

 Still we got a great many fishes, and they are said to have been 

 found in the St. Lawrence. 



Mr. Wilmot : If we can produce large numbers of shad in 

 that section, it will be equally beneficial to some portions of the 

 United States. 



Prof. Milner : It requires a very large catch to make any 

 success in getting eggs, because the per cent, of ripe fishes to 

 fertilize is very small in a catch. In three or four hundred 

 shad you will perhaps not find more than two or three or four 

 spawners. 



Mr. Wilmot : Is not that because they have not gone 

 sufficiently far up the river ? 



Prof. Milner : It was so in the Connecticut, where they had 

 got to the end of their course. 



Mr. Wilmot : What period of time will the shad-spawning 

 season cover ? 



Prof. Milner : It differs on different rivers. On the St. John, 

 in Florida, and in the Savannah River, it is in February : the 

 Washington markets have had their supply from Savannah for 

 two weeks past ; in March shad begin to run into the Potomac, 

 and in May and June they are spawning; in the Hudson the 

 season is still later, usually closing about the 1st of July; the 

 1 8th or 20th of July it begins in the Connecticut, and extends 

 up to August ; so that the farther you go north the later the 

 season is. 



