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those eggs on this side of the water might Ijo respoiisihh'. But 

 if that is not the ease, and if lias eome aljont in a gradual way 

 by individual fry here and there taking on this light coloration, 

 I fear it is a problem that they will have to work out, because, 

 so far as I am aware, nothing has been found in the hatcheries 

 of this coiintry. I shall be glad when 1 go back to mala- inquiry 

 of the men in charge of our hatchery, and to put into the min- 

 utes of the society anything they may know and which 1 do not, 

 which bears on this subject. 



Mr. Clark : I would say, Mr. President, at Xorthville W'- 

 are not doing anything with the rainljow trout now, except that 

 what eggs are forwarded for us from some of the stations, we 

 hatch, and grow fingerlings. We have rainbow trout in our 

 })onds, Imt no eggs are taken from them. Xothing at all is done 

 in that direction, and we know nothing about them except that 

 we receive the eggs, hatch them out, and plant them. The prin- 

 cipal work of Mr. Segall of Wytheville, of Mr. Dean of Xeosha, 

 and of Superintendent Johnson of ^Manchester is in connection 

 with rainbow trout. 



President: I think it would be well to send this paper to 

 some of the gentlemen. 



Mr. E. jST. Carter, St. Johnsbury, Tt.,: There are some 

 rainbow trout at St. Johnsbury station, l)ut they are not handled 

 there any longer, and they simply died out; water did not seem 

 suitable for them. Every s])ring the trout would conic out ^\■ith 

 sores on their bodies; and many of them finally Avent l)lind. and 

 eventually they were all turned into a stream near the station. 



Mr. Bower: I would like to inquire whether these white 

 trout and red trout all changed their spawning season, so that 

 all practically spawned in November. 



President : Xo, the red trout changed their spawning sea- 

 son, not all of them, so that the • spawning season lasts from 

 Xovember into March, but the white trout have not changed 

 their spawning season. 



Mr. Bower : We have handled rainbow trout, but never no- 

 ticed any such differentiation, nothing comparative. Of course, 



