RESUME OF WORK DONE DURING THE PAST YEAR 
IN THE RAISING OF WESTERN CHARR 
IN EASTERN WATERS. 
BY DR. F. M. JOHNSON. 
Mr. President and Members of the Society :—The subject of 
my paper to you today is simply a resume of work that I have 
been trying to do in the past year in the raising of western charr 
in eastern waters. 
Hidden among the hills of New Hampshire there is a spot 
that I chose for this particular work, on account first of the water 
supply, the purity of the water, and according to the surface [ 
found that I had sufficient fall between the headwaters and my 
pond to give magnificent aeration. The headwaters come from a 
lake called Kolelemook. The outlet of this lake fed two or three 
small ponds that at one time were used for mill purposes. These, 
in short, I reclaimed, building culverts underneath the roadways, 
taking away the large pipes, and trying to put each and every one 
of the small ponds into what I considered a better condition. 
Two ponds, one already completed, I have added to the water- 
course in the meadow land connected with the old farmhouse. 
By the kindness of Commissioner Bowers, to whom I early went 
when I had this scheme in mind, I was supplied with the fish 
with which to make certain experiments. At that time I had in 
one of the ponds, our native brook trout; in a pond below it | 
had the specimens of the western trout, the rainbow or the salmo 
iridius, and it was my intention to keep them apart and watch 
them, their feeding and their processes of life. Unfortunately, 
as I thought at that time, but it has proven fortunately since 
then, the upper dam had some leakage in it, and it was stopped 
up in the winter time, one flowed into the other and mixed the 
two varieties up. I thought at first when I discovered this that 
it was going to block my entire plan. Instead of that it has 
given me the subject of my paper today, for I want to draw out 
one or two factors, and one of them is the harmony in which the 
brook trout and the rainbow apparently live together. 
Now, gentlemen, I have not followed this in point of time 
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