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and I was adrift on the waters of Green Bay, six miles from 

 shore. I had to drift with the wind and finally landed in the 

 vicinity of a lumber camp. Perhaps I was not glad when I 

 struck the beach! I spawned fish most of the time I was 

 drifting and had some thirty gallons of whitefish eggs when 

 I landed. I took them up to camp, put them in wash tubs, 

 and had them all ready for trays before I went to bed in the 

 camp. That night the bay froze over solid. I had some eggs 

 in boxes at Winter's fish house and when I reached there 

 the next day the top trays were frozen solid so that I could 

 not remove them without breaking the boxes. As it was, I 

 shipped the eggs in the boxes to Milwaukee the next day. I 

 marked the boxes to keep them separate as I thought them 

 valueless and frozen. The eggs, however, turned out well 

 with the exception of those in the top tray. Since then I 

 have never been afraid of keeping eggs too cold when on the 

 fishing grounds or in shipping them to the hatchery. 



In the fall of 1885 I experienced another wild night on 

 the tug Anderson, en route from Beaver Islands to Escanaba. 

 I had some sixteen million whitefish eggs on board and the 

 boat was loaded down with fish. A storm came up after 

 we left the Beavers, and to save the boat we had to dump 

 six cars of fish into the lake. We also broke two of the 

 wheel blades of the tug. We succeeded in landing at Es- 

 canaba, Mich., on December 10th, w4th the temperature at 

 10 degrees below zero, the tug heavily iced and almost ready 

 to sink when we touched the dock. 



We now have six hatching stations excelled by no other 

 state in the Union as to buildings, grounds, and equipment. 

 But few states exceed Wisconsin in the annual distribution 

 of fish. We have been fortunate indeed in the selection of 

 men as members of the commission. Succeeding governors 

 have not seen fit to change the personnel of the commission, 

 as is the custom in some states. The public has acquired 

 utmost confidence in our department, and the legislative body 

 is liberal in the appropriation of funds to enhance the 



