TWENTY-SEVENTH BIENNIAL REPORT. 39 



water for irrigating lawns and flower beds ; foundation under hatchery 

 A renewed; repairs made on pond walls that had rotted and were un 

 safe ; new floor placed in the living room of the superintendent 's resi- 

 dence. A great many other improvements were made to maintain the 

 ponds, hatcheries, power plant, truck, wagons and other things too 

 numerous to mention in a brief report. 



A number of permanent improvements are needed at the ]\Iount 

 Shasta Hatchery to improve conditions and reduce the cost of opera- 

 tions. One of the most important is the installation of a refrigerating 

 plant, where ice could be made to supply the distribution cars as well 

 as to keep the fish food from getiing tainted during the warm weather 



The large ponds that the state has been leasing from their owners 

 for the rearing of salmon fry have passed into other hands and if the 

 leases can not be renewed for a term of years, a new location should b.^ 

 found on some tributarj^ of the Sacramento River, where suitable poncis 

 for the rearing of salmon can be constructed and the salmon fiy given 

 the benefit of several months of pond culture before being released 

 into the river. 



Money is needed to make these improvements. This state is progress- 

 ing and if the people desire to enjoy the angling in the many streams 

 of the state and save the salmon, the fish par excellence of all (uir 

 food fishes, the necessary funds must be furnished to the Fish and 

 Game Commission to improve and enlarge the hatcheries and pond 

 sj^stems for rearing of fish. It is up to the people to make their de- 

 cision, for in their hands rests the future development of fish cultural 

 work. 



BOGUS CREEK STATION. 



This fine egg-collecting station has kept up its record during the last 

 two years. There were 5.000,000 eggs collected during this period 

 and shipped to the different hatcheries. A number of improvements 

 were made during the two seasons last past: a tank for holding the 

 spawning fish was built 30 feet long, 8 feet wide and 8 feet high; a 

 board roof covered with malthoid roofing was placed over the tank ; the 

 old cabin was torn down and a new four-room cottage was built for the 

 use of the station; concrete foundations were placed under the holding 

 tank and a concrete toe wall was constructed under the racks and a 

 concrete bed under the traji, besides other improvements to Ijettex" 

 conditions at the station. 



HORNBROOK STATION. 



This station did not come up to expectation in 1921, owning to ;i 

 drought during the springs months, but the conditions were noniial in 

 the spring of 1922 and a good collection of eggs was had. During the 

 biennial period of 1920-1922, there wa.s collected from this station 

 2,172,000 rainbow trout eggs. 



The following im])rovements w<*rc made at this station during thf last 

 two years : 



Sixteen feet added to the holding tank, besides plaring a concrete 

 toe wall under the racks acro.ss the ])ed of the creek, eight feet in widtii : 

 two extra concrete piers were placed under the rack fj-ame to support the 

 structure against the flood waters and a rock wall was built on the east 



