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hatched. Mr. Robinson reports his lot to be 5,000, wliich were put 

 into the Merrimae river, as also were those hatched by Mr. Stone, 

 the entire yield of those eg^s being 10,000 salmon fry. 



In the year 1868 Mr. Livingston Stone built the salmon-breeding 

 establishment on the Miramichi river, N. B., near the locality 

 where Dr. Fletcher obtained his first' and second stock of salmen ova. 



Mr. Stone succeeded in bringing home that year, 183,000, as he 

 writes me, which were hatched in various localities, mostly, however, 

 at his establishment in Charlestown, N. H. These were mainly dis- 

 tributed in the Merrimae river. Some of the eggs were hatched by 

 Mr. Brackett, fish commissioner of Massachusetts, and turned into 

 the Mystic river, in that State, and 1,500 by Bacon & Co., wliich were 

 put into streams near Cape Cod. 



Two thousand young salmon fry from this lot of eggs hatched by Mr. 

 Stone were purchased by Commissioner Hagar, of Vermont, and put 

 into West river, a tributary of the Connecticut river, at Weston, Yt., 

 andWinooski river, a tributary of Lake Champlain. Those placed in 

 West river were under my charge through the early part of the season 

 (^f 1869. They were placed in that river on the 11th d-a,y of May, 

 1869, in a cove or estuary, into which debouched a cold spring brook. 

 They seemed to thrive well during the summer and early autunm, 

 till the memorable fall freshet of 1869, when they were carried out of 

 their nice little home, and I lost sight of them. Many, however, sur- 

 vived the freshet, and came back into the springs for Winter quarters. 

 Several were seen in the summer of 1870 in adjoining towns. In 

 fact, several were caught in the town below, situated on West river, 

 and, when their character was fully known, returned again to the river. 

 I am told that two out of this lot were caught at Windsor Lock in 

 Connecticut, on their way to sea in 1870. 



In the year 1869, Commissioner Hagar, of Yermont, brought from 

 the Miramichi river, N. B., some 40,000 or 50,000 salmon ova, which 

 were hatched at this establishment in Chester, Yt. Out of this num- 

 ber of eggs, nearly or quite eighty per cent hatched and were all put 

 into tributaries of the Connecticut river at Weston, and Chester, Yt. 

 These were all the salmon ova brought into the State that year, and 

 were all hatched and distributed in Yermont waters. 



In 1870 there was sent me from the Miramichi river, N. B., about 

 8,000 salmon ova, which were principally sold and distributed to the 

 commissioners of Maine and Connecticut ; although our worthy 

 president, Mr. Clift, of Mystic Bridge, Conn., received his pro rata 

 allowance. These were hatched and distributed to the various streams 



