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michi river, with great natural facilities and a hatching-house 100 feet 

 long. We succeeded in taking that year a quarter of a million 

 impregnated salmon eggs, but the jealousies we encountered there 

 and the strong public opinion in Canada against the operations of 

 foreigners in this line, convinced us that the next time the thing was 

 attempted it had better be done on American soil, as the Canadians 

 call the United States. We were, therefore, very glad to hear last 

 spring of the project of Commissioner Atkins to locate salmon-breed- 

 ing works on one of tlie Maine rivers, where salmon eggs could be 

 obtained independently of foreign control. 



The scheme of Mr. Atkins has met with a double success, for he 

 has not only succeeded in getting a very considerable quantity of ova 

 at a cost of more than twenty dollars per 1,000 less than is (charged at 

 the government establisment at Ontario, Canada, which is one suc- 

 cess, but his labors have proved that much larger quantities may be 

 obtained in future years at a still less cost, which is another and 

 greater success. 



Mr. Atkins' report is filled, as his reports always are, with very 

 valuable matter, and forms an important addition to our still limited 

 stock of knowledge on the culture of fish. We should like to reprint 

 here seven-eighths of Mr. Atkins' report, word for word, but as there 

 is not room for this we will confine ourselves to the following extracts : 



The most important business of the year has been the breeding 

 of salmon from parent fish obtained in the Penobscot river, less 

 attention having been paid to the construction of fishways than in 

 former years, and nothing at all having been done in the cultivation 

 of fresh-water fishes. 



Our plan was as follows : To buy live salmon of the fishermen in 

 the vicinity of Bucksport, transport them to some convenient place 

 where they could be confined within a small space in fresh water, and 

 keep them until the spawning season, when their eggs would be taken. 

 All the eggs were to be developed on the spot sufliciently to insure 

 their safe removal, and a portion of those belonging to Maine to be 

 hatched out and turned into those waters to assist in increasing the 

 number of salmon in the Penobscot, which would thereby become 

 better able to aff'ord us parent salmon in the future. Among the 

 advantages which this plan would have over that of catching the 

 parent fish on their spawning ground in the fall, three deserve mention. 

 In the first place, we would beyond question obtain a large number 

 of salmon from the owners of weirs, while it was a matter of great 

 uncertainty how many could be caught in the upper waters where 



