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room is also planned for keeping a reserve stock of food. 

 Following the policy of its predecessors, the Board has 

 used large quantities of smelt for feeding salmon fry and 

 this past season forty-two tons were consumed. It has also 

 gathered great numbers of eels which are taken wherever 

 practicable but are mostly obtained at the falls of the Wil- 

 liamette River at Oregon City where, during the late spring 

 and early summer, upwards of fifty tons were secured. 

 Other kinds of food utilized are liver, milk curd, heads 

 and other offal of the adult salmon packed at the canneries, 

 and a wheat product known as "middlings," the latter being 

 cooked thoroughly into mush. 



From the spawn taken during the fall of 1911 and winter 

 of 1912, the results obtained at the different hatcheries are 

 shown by the following tabulated statement : 



Chinooks Silversides Steelheads Total 



10,599.490 589,605 1.225,745* 14,372,665 



2,522,500 377,655 2,900,155 



75,000 75,000 



646.300 1.578,131 831,000* 3,055,431 



148,992 1,554,602 7,145 1.710,739 



287.645 997,455 1,285,100 



715,758 504,429 72,097 1,292,284 



1,253,747 1,253,747 



1.767,170 2,317,370 4,084,540 



221,740 1,672,850 1,894,590 



1,957,825 18,238,342 9,592,097 2,135,987 31,924,251 



^Distributed as game fish. 



