FIFTEENTH ANNUAL MEE'lING. 85 



one and a half miles long just above Riverhead, good running water, 

 which I hired two men to clean out of all worthless fish, such as cat- 

 fish, suckers and what we call "roach," They caught about two and 

 a half tons of turtles, which we carted off and buried. I was in 

 hopes to get some black bass 10 place in this pond, and would like 

 some whitefish for it now. We have a good place for lake trout, and 

 if y<m will send us some and let us know when they will arrive, I will 

 take especial pains for their care. Perhaps the brown trout might 

 do well here. (Signed) J. Henry Perkins. 



In the salt-water department, we have hatched and turned out 

 over two million tomcods, or as they are sometimes called on 

 the coast, frost fish, a small relative of the cod which seldom 

 exceeds a pound in weight but is quite an important little food 

 fish in onv harbors. In Januarv we had some 2,000,000 codfish 

 eggs of which a very fair percentage were developing, until a 

 blizzard blew through our old delapitated shanties, which we 

 use for hatching houses, and froze up the pipes and the eggs in 

 the jars. We had watched the development of these eggs daily 

 under the microscope with great interest, and felt sure of suc- 

 cess until the cold snap put a stop to all further development. 



Of the brown trout, which by the way I believe to be the 

 gamest trout in America, we had some three thousand eggs from 

 our own fish, and have received some 25,000 from Germany 

 through the ccnirtesy of our good friend, Herr von Behr, presi- 

 dent of the German Fishery Association, with a promise of 

 50,000 more from Herr von dem Borne, the well-known fishcul- 

 turist of Berneuchen. 



From the United States Fish Commission we have 500,000 

 salmon hatched from eggs received from the hatching station 

 at Orland, Me., under charge of Mr. C. G. Atkins. These will 

 go into the headwaters of the Hudson, the Salmon river empty- 

 ing into Lake Ontario, the Oswego river and some 50,000 will 

 go by request of State Commissioner R. U. Sherman, to the 

 waters of the Saranacs, whose outlet is into Lake Chaplain and 

 down into the St. Lawrence. These fish are now ready for dis- 

 tribution. We have also about 34,000 land-locked salmon from 

 the United States works at Grand Lake stream, Me., in charge 

 of Mr. H. H. Buck, also sent at request of General Sherman 



