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was filled with ice, and this car was taken to Chicago without 

 being unpacked ; and there they were taken out of the ice, and 

 the consequence was that they were all taken out in good order. 

 Besides this, this method has saved the United States Fish 

 Commission about $700, and saved the consignees about $700 — 

 saving to the various fish commissions about $1,400. 



When I first started there I found it necessary to put the 

 hatching-troughs close to the water's edge, in order to get 

 fall enough from the river to get hatching-water, and con- 

 sequently every fall we had to tear up all the hatching-troughs, 

 and the next spring to put them all down again. Last 

 year I put up a permanent hatching-house, quite a solid struc- 

 ture, above the high-water mark, and put in a large current- 

 wheel, which pumps the water up from the river and takes it 

 through a flume ; and in this way I hope to save the trouble and 

 expense of tearing down the troughs every fall and putting 

 them up every spring. 



Prof. Baird : One word with regard to the California 

 salmon. In 1875 Mr. Stone was authorized to give a small 

 number of the eggs to the New Zealand colonies, and that lot 

 of eggs was divided into two, one part of which hatched out 

 very satisfactorily, but the other failed. In 1876 that experiment 

 was renewed in New Zealand. I have heard from all those 

 consignments now, and in every case success has been 

 triumphant — not less than 75 to 90 per cent, of the eggs have 

 been turned into healthy, vigorous fish. This is a great triumph 

 for our California salmon, in view of the fact that so many 

 pounds sterling had been expended in trying to introduce the 

 Scotch salmon. They had succeeded in introducing the carp 

 and the tench, but the salmon they had not succeeded with. All 

 the experiments in Australia, and those in New Zealand, had 

 failed. 



