consideriiij;' the mimber of uggs contained— not kss than o!u' 

 liundrcd and eiglity t]ioiisand. 



Jnno 'Jth. — The eggs taken last night, not one died in live 

 liimdred, Mr. Hanilen retai-iied from Elk Rivcr^ and re- 

 ])orted tJie successful slii|jmont of thirty thousand young 

 Shad, with which he started yesterday, he took them in two 

 fifteen gallon c^ins across the country hy wagon, started from 

 camp at 5.o() o'clock, A. M., and reached the river at Rie- 

 hald's WJnu'f at "1 P. M.; temperature at starting 74°. it 

 fell gradually during the journey and stood at 70° on reach- 

 ing the river. Temperature of the river at the time of de- 

 positing\them Avas 71°. Tlie v/ater was neither changed nor 

 added to during tlie trip, he re[»orts that the iish were in ex- 

 cellent condition wlien ])iaced in the stream; oO,000 were 

 sent }'cstcrday for Nanticoke, hut were sent by mistake to 

 Philadelphia where they remained all night, reaching Elkton 

 at 11 A. M. to-day. Mr. Downes re};orts that they stood re- 

 markably well, only a fevx' died. Procured 200.000 eggs 

 from nine s])a\vners, from the gillers chiefly — all becoming 

 fecund . 



June lUMi. — Eggs of Otli looking vv-eli, those of Stii shov;- 

 iiig larger mortality th.an ex[)ectcd, those of the 7th doing 

 well since the 2nd day — a few Initching this evening : took 

 twenty-iivc ounces of eggs tlie evening, six tiiousand to the 

 ounce, total 150,000, but got only one male Shad, from which 

 pressed a very fcAv drops nf milt: less tlitm onc-haff the e.<;gs 

 were inijU'egnated. 



•lunejlth. — Eggs of ninth ]iot hjoking s(» well, tJiose oi 

 8th no worse, those of 7th rapidly hatching, those of last 

 night as good as expected: took about ten ounces of eggs — 

 only tu'o dro])s of milt from a <lead hsi). all died. 



dune 12th. — Shipp<?d all lish taken lo Cockoysville;, thise 

 of 8th liatchiiig rapidly ami in large numbers; loss of eggs 

 mucii lighter titan we feared, not more than ten per cent. 



•hiue loth. — Eggs of ;Sth all hatched, tliose of Oth nearly 

 ail out, (hese also hatclied ninety per cent. 



dune lit!). — Ttirned loose seventy-live ihousauu, aud 

 shipped sixty tiiousand to Piedmont in charge of Mr. ilam- 

 leu; broke iijt camp, and rejiorted to Mr. Ferguson in ]5al- 

 timore. 



