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Mr. Weli^ter: S])<iw]kh1 last year and the year before. That 

 was the first. 



President : Their yonng liave not yet come n]) to tlie point of 

 spawning-? 



]\Ir. Webster: 'J'beir yonng liave not. One year from next 

 falh their yonng will si)a\vn. 



Mr. ]\leeliaii : I can relate another rather cnrious eirenm- 

 stance abont this. Many years, ago, we received a quantity of 

 rainl)ow tront from the United States government and hatched 

 them in the hatcbery at Marietta. The stock Avas divided in 

 two parts. One was sent to Corry hatchery and one was trans- 

 ferred with the other stock at the Marietta hatchery to AUenton, 

 the distance between the two stations being about 400 miles east 

 and west. ISTow these were all from one stock. The fish at 

 Corry hatched at the usual time, early in the spring. Those at 

 Allenton s])awned. and spawned regularly for years, about the 

 same time as the brook trout, from the middle of October to the 

 middle of Xo\ember. 



President: Your experience has been entirely parallel to 

 that of the French hatchery. 



Mr. Meehan : I missed the paper. These fish that we had at 

 Bellefonte are not progeny of the fish there, because finding that 

 tlu' fish did not propagate naturally in the stream, the propaga- 

 tion of rainl:)Ow trout was for several years abandoned. And 

 recently we took it up again on the idea that we could have our 

 fish spawn in the spring, when our troughs would be empty; and 

 the fish we are now having were from eggs received from the 

 United States government. I think the fish over at Bellefonte 

 came from Wytheville, but I am not sure, ^^'e now have some 

 fish tbat will come into spawiring at Corry this coming fall. 



President : You expect tbeni to spawn in the fall ? 



Mr. IMeehan : I say this fall, I mean with this natural 

 ^Deriod thev will come in spawn there this year. 



Mr. Buller: I have a pond of these fish which came from 

 "Wytheville, Ya., and some of them spawned in Feliruary, tbat 



