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periment, amounting say to 100,000, makes the total number 

 of California Salmon, the produce of those received, 1,141,640. 

 The total loss of eggs and fish at the Hatching House, 

 amounting to 140,030, would indicate that the eggs receired 

 were 1,292,670 instead of 1,100,000, as estimated by Mr. 

 Stone. 



Of those placed in the waters of other States are included 

 78,400 placed in the Shenandoah, 16,000 in the Occoquan, 

 and 32,000 in Goose Creek, all tributaries of the Potomac. As 

 these, on their return from the Sea, in their migration up, will 

 be taken by the fisheries on the Potomac, below Washington, 

 the 126,400 Salmon, included in the 259,800 placed in waters 

 out of the State, will be of benefit to the State of Maryland ; 

 we may, therefore, estimate that of the fish hatched in the 

 Fall of 1876, INIaryland waters will receive the benefit of 

 911,040, a very large increase in the number of CaUfornia 

 Salmon, placed in Maryland waters, of those hatched in the 

 Fall of 1875, which amounted, as will appear from the record 

 contained in the annexed table, to 268,764. 



The experiment has now been tried on a sufficiently large 

 scale to insure its success, if the introduction of this valuable 

 fish into Maryland waters is possible. Possibly a few of 

 those first placed in these waters may return from the sea 

 during the coming Spring and be taken by our fishermen, but 

 we do not look for the return of the Salmon in any quantities 

 before the Spring of 1878, or possibly '79. 



