178 Fortieth Annual Meeting 



Mr. Hurlbut : We do select two year olds to produce our eggs that 

 we put on the market. We will not take this year 500,000 eggs from 

 yearlings. They will all be from the older trout, because there is a 

 demand for them, and because the inquiry is made whether the eggs 

 are yearling eggs or year-and-a-half eggs. 



President: I will say further that, for the last eight years at any 

 rate, we have contemplated trying to secure an appropriation for another 

 trout hatchery in the upper peninsula of Michigan. After investigating 

 conditions there within the last few weeks, I recommended to our board 

 that we establish a station there for the hatching of bass, perch and 

 that class of fish exclusively, and buy all the trout eggs we need for 

 the trout hatchery at the Soo. I believe that to the extent that the 

 commercial hatcheries meet the demand, you will find the states and 

 Bureaus depending more and more on them for the production of trout 

 eggs, because they have an advantage; they can produce them cheaper 

 for the reason that they are selling their stock fish and at a fancy price. 



