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ficial ponds in New York State, which formed a branch of 

 the Cold Spring Farm. It is a good evidence of the in- 

 creased public interest in fish culture that now there is an 

 incessant demand for black bass, while in 1868 I had but 

 one order for bass fry during the whole summer. In the 

 fall of this year I built a large salmon-breeding estab- 

 lishment, with extraordinary natural facilities, on the Miri- 

 michi River, New Brunswick. Nearly half a million sal- 

 mon eggs were taken here this year, one half of which 

 went by agreement to the Canadian Department of Fish- 

 eries, and the other half were taken to the hatching house 

 at Charlestown. Various causes had reduced the num- 

 bers, however, and each half was estimated at only 183,000 ; 

 100,000 of these were sold to the Massachusetts and New 

 Hampshire Commissioners for $ 1,600, and sent to Messrs. 

 Robinson & Hoyt, at Meredith Village, N. H., to be hatched 

 by them for the Merrimack River. Other lots were sent to 

 various parties, among others, the South Side Club, New 

 York ; W. Clift, Poheganut Ponds, Conn. ; Colonel Theo- 

 dore Lyman, for Massachusetts State Hatching House, 

 and E. A. Brackett, Winchester, Mass. One lot was sent to 

 England to Mr. Frank Buckland, British Commissioner of 

 Fisheries, and was favorably noticed in the London Times. 



One salmon of this fall's take of eggs, now three years 

 old, was kept till last winter (1872) at Charlestown, in the 

 fresh water it was hatched in. It is a smolt, but very 

 much dwarfed, and is the oldest tame salmon in America. 



One lot of yearling trout, hatched here in the year 1867, 

 took a diploma at the Connecticut River Agricultural Fair. 

 Another lot took a diploma at the New England Fair at 

 New Haven. 



1869. 



In the spring of 1869 about 100 spring spawning fish 

 were brought from the Missisquoi River to the Cold Spring 

 Trout Ponds, consisting chiefly of black bass, glass-eyed 



