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is asked for instead of the pittance of twenty-five hundred 

 dollars granted."' 



Much attention is given to the Sacramento Salmon (Salmo 

 quinnat) by scientists and by fish culturists in other countries 

 for the reason that it comes into rivers to spawn in latitudes 

 much lower, and in waters much warmer than any other 

 variety yet known. Large numbers pass up the San Joaquin 

 River for the purpose of spawning in July and August, 

 swimming for one hundred and fifty miles through the hot- 

 test valley of the State, where the temperature of the air at 

 noon is rarely less than 80° Fahrenheit, . and where the 

 average temperature of the river, at the bottom, is 70°, and 

 at the surface 80°. The Salmon of the San Joaquin River 

 appear to be of the same variety as those in tlie Sacramento, 

 but average smaller in size. Their passage to their spawn- 

 ing grounds at this season of the year, at so higli a tempera- 

 ture of both air and water, would indicate that they will 

 thrive in all the rivers of the Southern States, whose waters 

 take their rise in the mountainous regions, and in a few 

 years, without doubt the San Joaquin Salmon will bo trans- 

 planted to all of those States." 



"The weight of Salmon caught during the past season in 

 the waters of the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers, is es- 

 timated at 5,098,780 pounds, in addition to 92,000 pounds of 

 fresh Salmon shipped in ice to the New York market."' 



We received in October, 1874, about two hundred and fifty 

 thousand eggs of the California Salmon, a gift to the State 

 from Professor S. F. Baird, U. S. Commissioner, from the 

 eggs collected under his direction, by Mr. Livingston Stone, 

 at the U. S. Hatching Camp on the McLoud River, California. 

 The eggs arrived in wretched condition ; as they had not been 

 iced on the journey, many of them were prematurely hatch- 

 ed, and the masses of eggs were generally heated. 



The good eggs were placed in the hatching troughs in Mr. 

 Kent's establishment, and hatched in a few days, the sack 

 was absorbed in about thirty -five days, and the young fish 

 distributed as shown in the table, from which it will be seen 

 that one hundred and forty-lour thousand (144,000) of this 

 valuable fish Avere placed in the several rivers of the State. 



On the 13th of October last, we received seven crates, con- 

 taining each eighty thousand eggs, a liberal donati(»n from 



