Dyche. — New State Hatchery for Kansas 171 



Many of these blue prints are full of details, intended 

 especially for the engineers and contractors. I do not care 

 to bother you with the details of construction. I run trying 

 to give you only a general idea of what the proposed 

 hatchery will be. 



Take Pond 52, for instance. The water can be cut off 

 from it without interfering with any other pond. This 

 Pond 52 can also be drained without interfering with the 

 water supply or drainage of any other pond. This is the 

 system arranged for all the ponds. 



Each pond in the system can be either filled or drained in 

 from 24 to 36 hours. We find it to be of great advantage 

 to be able to fill or drain a pond in a comparatively short 

 period of time ; however, the ponds may be filled and drained 

 slowly, by turning the water on or oft, as the occasion may 

 demand. The smallest drain pipe used is eight inches in 

 diameter. The river into which the water is drained is a 

 few feet below the level of the bottom of the ponds, which 

 fact makes a good drainage system possible. 



These blue prints showing so much detail of inlets, out- 

 lets and valves, I will not undertake to explain unless you 

 want especially to know about them. It would be rather out 

 of place at this time in this rambling account of the proposed 

 new hatchery. 



We have been connected with this hatchery work for 

 about two years. We have always felt that Governor 

 Stubbs and others concerned pushed or forced us into it. 

 We were pretty well satisfied with our University work be- 

 fore we undertook this job. However, after we discovered 

 that we were in the business we tried to "get busy," and 

 have done the best we could. We began at once to study 

 the hatchery business and began to plan for a hatchery 

 adapted to the conditions of our own state. We talked fish 

 hatchery to everyone and talked it all the time. When the 

 time came we presented the matter to the legislature and 

 tried to explain what we thought Kansas ought to have. 

 We stood for a good hatchery, one that we thought would 



