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say, lie allowed the water to come into one pond, and pass to an- 

 other one hefore it came into tlie hatchery pipes, — and accom- 

 plished exactly the same purpose. 



We have had a great deal of troul)le on the score of dry 

 weather at some of the trout stations, and I need not go into the 

 details ahout that with yon. 



Excess heat has also caused considerahle difficulty, partic- 

 ularly in trout streams which are very rocky. The intensely 

 hot air has caused the rocks to warm up, and to retain the heat, 

 and therehy communicate it to flie surrounding water to such an 

 extent that a great many trout have heen killed, simply by the 

 excessive heat. 



Another practical troul)le which affected the shad Avork 

 during the past season must have been observed by all who have 

 been engaged in that work, and that was the very low temper- 

 ature of the water early in the season and continuing until say, 

 up to the 1st of June. 



At one of our stations, we have another practical difficulty 

 in the shape of a grist mill, which stirs up and uses most of the 

 water supply of a good trout lirook, during about one-half of 

 each da}', so that we can get at most only about a ten inch pipe 

 flow of water during the dry season of the summer, when the 

 mill is in operation. "We do not know at present any good way 

 to get rid of that difficulty, except that we have another string- 

 to our bow ; fortunately there is on the other side of that station 

 and alongside of our own property a very much larger creek, a 

 creek al^out r)!} feet wide and over forty miles long, which has a 

 succession of rapids in Avhich we could easily, l)y means of a 

 dam, get a new su|)ply. We could get one from that stream 

 which wo\il(l flood two hundred acres of ponds, if we had that 

 amount. 



President: Co\ddn't you get the state of Xew York to buy 

 the mill ? 



Mr. Bean : The owner of that mill is a man who has con- 

 siderable ])roperty, and would not sell at any price? It could be 

 condemned. In fact, that leads me to another heading — the 

 scarcity of good hatchery sites. It is })erfectly astonishing, even 

 to the pract'cal fish culturists, to note the very great number of 



