May !.st.--Catcli vcrv lig-lil', nu ript- ii.sli. 



May Ili'd. — Coldjiiid windy, ciiiigdit two hundred sliad, iiutic 

 ripe. 



May 4tli. — Catcli liii;litcv, <;ot a tlionsaud orniorecggK IVoni 

 partially I'ipo tisli. 



May 5th. — Caught only fifty shad, none ripo. From Thurs- 

 day to Wednesday, temperature of water ranged from 52'^ U) 



May (Uh. — P^xcniinc'tl one hundred and fifty shad, found 

 iivc partially ri[)e; ohtaiued only three or iour thousand egg.s; 

 temperature of water at 2 o'clock P. M., GO^. 



]\[ay 7th. — Examined three hundred., hluul, none fully ripe, 

 from wdiich few eggs were ohtained; good many from one: 

 total, 20.0(10: teniix-rafure of water at o P. M.^fM-'^on sur- 

 face. 



May Sth. — Examined twenty-five before day-light, none 

 ripe; afternoon hauls yielded one hundred and fifty, none ripe; 

 morning cool, day cloudy, temperature of water at noon 02^; 

 sent i"or mor(' hatching hoxey; in the evening, took about 

 forty tliousand spawn; from Saturday to Monday, seven luin- 

 dred shad* caught, all uni-ipe, split and salted them; in some 

 of them roe was lieginning to se])arate, most of them compact. 

 and in a lev/ beginning to vim near the vent. 



May loth. — Caught about two Juindred ;uid sixty-five in 

 the juoi'ning; in the evoring, tuie i)undrcd: total number 

 spawn, 20,000 from one ripe shad. 



May 1 Ith. — Cauglit one liundred aiid slx(y-five, none ripe. 

 3Iay 12tii. — Caught thirty-four, none ripe. 

 ^lay l;Uh. — Caught sixty -five, none rij)c. 

 May 14th. — Caught twenty-seven, mjne ri[ie. 

 May 15th. — Caught one liundretl and thirty-six, two par- 

 tially ripe, obtained ten thousand eggs. 



May ITtli. — Caught ninety-seven, none riix'. 



3Iay iStlf. — Caught one liundred and nineteen, none riitr 



3Iay lOth. — Caught one hundred and eiglity-nine, two rine: 

 tliree partially ripe; look about sixty thoasund eggs. 



May 20th.— Caught one hundred and forty-four, three ripe; 

 took sixty thousand eggs, two of the fish were stripped an 



