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collect whitefish eggs, and if he succeeded in procuring a 

 couple of rnillion we considered ourselves in great luck. 

 The first whitefish were hatched in 1869 and some of them 

 were placed in a spring pond previously covered with boards. 

 In the fall of that year we found from three to four dozen 

 of the fish in the pond and some of them had attained a 

 growth of six inches. In the fall of 1870 Nelson W. Clark 

 came to visit the hatchery, and I had the pleasure of 

 showing him the first whitefish artificially raised in confine- 

 ment. Seth Green, who was collecting lake trout eggs at 

 Brighton, visited the hatchery that fall, and I also had the 

 pleasure of showing him the same fish. These are the only 

 whitefish I ever saw raised in confinement and they lived 

 in the spring pond for several years. 



In the fall of 1873, when nineteen years of age, I was 

 sent to Tadousac, in the Province of Quebec, to start opera- 

 tions in a salmon hatchery at the mouth of the far-famed 

 Saguenay River. 



During the summer of 1875 I was placed in charge of the 

 hatchery at Sandwich, Ontario, which was built that year 

 and was the most extensive station in America. The 

 hatchery was then equipped for the propagation of white- 

 fish. The eggs were hatched on trays, and had to be picked 

 and feathered the same as eggs of lake trout are today. I 

 have often listened to a discussion as to who was the first 

 fish culturist to hatch whitefish in bulk, and I believe that my 

 work in this direction precedes any who claim that distinc- 

 tion. During the winters of 1873 and 1874 the following 

 system was pursued on a small scale : Hatching pans, as we 

 called them, were used ; these pans were about 8 by 12 

 inches, and had perforated zinc bottoms. In them we 

 placed from 3 to 4 inches of eggs and allowed the water to 

 enter at one end, the pressure forcing the water up through 

 the holes in the bottom and giving the necessary circulation. 



During the winter of 1874 we worked on a funnel-shaped 

 can having a capacity of from one to two quarts of eggs 

 and so constructed as to use either the top or bottom for 



