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conditions exist. M. C. Toms, of Hendersonville, N. 

 C., on February 6, 1896, wrote us with reference to the 

 success attained in Green River from fish planted from 

 the Wytheville, Virginia, station. Mr. J. D. Phipps, 

 of Longs Gap, Grayson County, Virginia, reports Peach 

 Bottom Creek as splendidly stocked, fish having been 

 caught there measuring twenty-two inches in length. 

 He speaks of them as fine game fish, and reports that 

 the increase in numbers has been great. Mr. W. K. 

 Hancock, writing from Colorado, makes the following 

 statement : 'In the streams throughout this part of 

 the country rainbow trout are not very plentiful, and 

 their average size would be from three to five fish to the 

 pound ; but occasionally one will be taken weighing 

 from one-half to three-fourths of a pound. Their 

 growth is very slow in our streams in this immediate 

 vicinity (Leadville) ; in the lower part of the State, 

 south and southwest of this, they are more plentiful 

 and grow much larger. In Twin Lakes, twelve miles 

 southwest of here, they grow to twelve and thirteen 

 pound.*. They are very game and are considered fine 

 table fish.' 



"A correspondent, Mr. T. W. Scott, of Rome, Geor- 

 gia, under date of December 17, 1895, reported that 

 numbers of rainbow trout were caught in Silver Creek. 

 William W. Finney, of Belair, Maryland, in a letter 

 dated April 26, 1895, refers to two streams flowing into 

 the Susquehanna River that were stocked some years 

 before. He states that several had been caught in the 

 stream after all hope had been abandoned of their being 

 found, and that besides the large fish numbers of small 

 ones were observed, from four to five inches long. Mr. 

 Atkins, last spring, in a tributary of Alamoosook Lake, 

 near East Orland, Maine, captured 199 adult rainbow 



