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With the knowledge attained this season, which was my first 

 experience with trout, and with care and feeding the trout 

 through the spring and summer and increasing their size, at 

 least 200,000 eggs can be taken from them next fall, while the 

 salmon are being hatched. If we were to purchase this number 

 from the north they would not cost less than six hundred dollars 

 Farther than this the trout in the ponds will produce a greater 

 number of eggs each season. Our hatching house building is 

 of the most inferior quality, but was constructed for experimen- 

 tal work and has answered all purposes so far; but as nothing 

 but running branch water is used, its temperature is so reduced, 

 in cold weather as to freeze solid in troughs, house and ponds 

 without incessant labor right and day while the cold spells pre- 

 vail. The troughs, reservoir and supply troughs are common 

 and leaky and^the ice formed eighteen inches thick on our entire 

 floor, even encroaching on our office, freezing six inches thick and 

 remaining a month in the bunks made for our sleeping accom- 

 modation, and within four feet of a stove in which a fire burn- 

 ed night and day for weeks. I respectfully recommend that we 

 may have a new building and at a point at which we may get 

 spring Avater and be near enough a market to buy necessary 

 articles without having to pay double their value to get them to 

 us; also where we can get fish food regularly and cheaply. At at 

 elevation of 2600 feet we may resonably look for cold weather 

 every winter, and the house cannot be carried safely through 

 another winter of etjual severity with the present. 



CALIFORNIA SALMON. 



On the 8th of Oct. 1878, 315,000 California salmon eggs reached 

 Henry's and I commenced the regular winter season with Mr. 

 C. J. Huske, of Fayetteville, assisting. On the 9th of October 

 an additional number of 52,500 of the same eggs came, making 

 a total of o67,500. These cgga were allotted to North Carolina. 

 by Prof. S. F. Baird, Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries of the 

 United States. They are taken annually to the number of five 

 to seven millions on the McCloud river, California, under in- 



