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were debarred from the spawning grounds ; therefore we have 

 deposited tiie young fish there. Last summer I wrote a letter 

 to Mr. A. N. Cheney, of Glens Falls, a member of this Associa- 

 tion and a gentleman wlio takes a very great interest in anything 

 of this kind, asking him if it would be possible to employ some 

 man there to examine those trout streams, and see if there was 

 any trace of those voung fish left, and the following letter from 

 him, tells of the success of last year's plant. 



Glens Falls. N. Y., Oct. 9, 1885.— J/r. E. G. Blackford— Dq:\v Sir: 

 As requested in ytnir letter of July 2, 1 send you to-day by National 

 Express specimens of the young salmon from Clendon brook. I was 

 absent when your letter came and have been liome very little since, 

 which is the cause of the delay. I told Mr. Mather that I would cer- 

 tainly get them before winter. I engaged a man to take the fish, but 

 he was not successtul, owing to high water. Yesterday I went to the 

 brook with a friend, Mr. W. D. Cleveland, of Houston, Tex., and in a 

 short time caught the number I send. You will, perhaps, remember 

 that Mr. Mather sent me 40,000 salmon fry on May 21, 1884, and 60,000 

 salmon fry and 150 yearhngs April 29, 1885. from Cold Spring Harbor, 

 and all were deposited in Clendon brook, a tributary of the Hudson. 

 The Clendon was once a famous trout stream, yielding trout of four 

 pounds and upward, and still there are some few baskets of small tish 

 taken from it. Yesterday the stream seemed fairly alive with salmon 

 for a mile, and residents tell me that this is the case its entire length. 

 As the trout were attending to their domestic duties up stream the 

 brook was given over to the salmon. They were in the deep holes 

 and at the foot of the riffs, but everywhere in numbers. There 

 seemed to be two distinct sizes, one four to six inches long, the other 

 two to three inches long. With the exception of a few cliubs, silver 

 chubs or fall fish, S. bnllaris, I found no other fish than salmon in the 

 stream. One bright-colored male salmon as I took him from the brook 

 discharged milt from the pressure of my hand. This particuhir fish 

 I caught in swift water where it ran over gravel. I hope Brother 

 Mather will have an opportunity to interview these 5''oung things 

 that were graduated from his University at Cold Spring Harbor before 

 they are sent to Prof. Baird. It wcndd have been an easy matter to 

 catch a hundred yearlings during the time I was at the brook, and in 

 their eagerness to take the lure thej^ jumped ck-ar above the water. 

 After catching the first salmon, Mr. Cleveland exclaimed: "If that 

 beggar weighed thirty-two pounds" (he had in mind a salmon caught 



