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From the preceding table of losses and the figures given 

 as planted, it will be seen that there is a discrepancy of only 208 

 fish, and these are on my side. Further, my estimate of eggs 

 received exceeds that of Col. McDonald by about 5,000. The 

 cool spring water, say of about 60 degrees (the mean of the 

 above table is 60.7 degrees), seems to account for the absence of 

 fungus on the dead eggs. Having hatched shad eggs in iced water 

 (see Report U. S. Fish Commissioner for 1873, '74 and '75, pp- 

 372, 376), and on the ri\ers of the Atlantic coast from the 

 Pamunky to the Connecticut, where it has often reached eighty 

 degrees, I find spring water at about sixty degrees to be the best 

 medium for shad eggs which I have used. In the summer of 

 1884, I made an examination of the shad fisheries of the Hudson 

 for the New York Fishery Commission to find the best place to 

 take eggs. There are several points on the river where eggs 

 can be obtained, and these lie between Kingston and Hudson. 

 The catch of fish during the season of 1884 was a very fair one, 

 owing, no doubt, to the plantings by the State and by the U. S 

 Fish Commission. 



B. Brown Trout. — On Feb. 24, 1885, we received from the 

 Deutschen Fischerei Verein a box of 40,000 eggs of the brown 

 trout {Salmo fario), half of which were billed to Mr. E. G. Black- 

 ford, and the remainder to me. The loss in transit was 1.020, 

 and we afterward lost 2,594 eggs and 8,131 fry ; 28,900, accord- 

 ing to our estimate, were planted in Queens, Suffolk, West- 

 chester and Rockland counties, N. Y. These fish are destined 

 to become great favorites, and the demand for them increases. 



C. Brook Trout. — We received 7,000 eggs from the United 

 States Fish Commission at Northville, Mich., Frank N. Clark, 

 superintendent, and a lot of Rangely and blueback trout eggs 

 from the Maine Fish Commission, on account of Mr. Francis 

 H. Weeks, of Cold Spring Harbor, but which were so arranged 

 that we could not tell which was which, and no careful estimate 

 of the number was made, as a mistake occurred in shipping ; 

 probably there were 50,000 in all. These, together with some 

 16,000 eggs taken from our pounds, were hatched and distributed 

 on Long Island. 



D. RAiNB(nv Trout. — From 20,000 eo^ors received from the 



