REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. XLV 



313,800, bat after the unfertilized ones had been picked oft' there 

 remained only 245,150. Of these, 60,000 were shipped as follows: 



Nearly half of the remainder were transferred to Craig Brook, and 

 the balance were held at the station to be reared and liberated in Grand 

 Lake Stream the coming fall. At the close of the year the fish seemed 

 to be in excellent condition. Their food consisted of beef livers, obtained 

 once or twice a week from Calais. 



St. Johnsbury Station, Vermont (J. W. Titcomb, Superintendent). 

 On July 1 the stock of fish on hand was as follows: 



All of the Pacific salmon which had been held in the nursery ponds 

 supplied by water from Sleeper River, except 1,000 retained for experi- 

 mental purposes, were distributed early in July on account of the 

 sudden rise in the temperature, which reached 82° on July 5 at 6.30 

 p. m., causing the loss of 14,500 of the fry. Of the fish retained, 776 

 were alive at the close of the fiscal year. The landlocked salmon fry 

 were held until the end of July, when they were planted in Lakes 

 Morey and Caspian, and the steel head trout were planted about the 

 same time in Lakes Morey, Willoughby, and Champlaiu. 



During the summer preparations were made for securing a supply of 

 brook-trout eggs from wild trout by the establishment of auxiliary field 

 stations. The stations operated the previous year at Darling Pond, 

 Groton, and at Caspian Lake, Greensboro, were put in order, and the 

 superintendent visited Willoughby Lake at Westmore, Ewel's Pond at 

 Peacham, Garfield Pond at Danby, Silsby's Pond at Newbury, and a 

 number of others, with a view to operating experimental stations at 

 those points. As a result of his investigations, operations were under- 

 taken at Lakes Willoughby and Ansil, and at the ponds of the Wells 

 Eiver Pish and Game Club. The only results secured from these were 

 14,525 lake-trout eggs at Willoughby Lake ; and as the expense involved 

 in the collection of these was great, the work was abandoned. 



Work at Caspian Lake was begun on October 11, and continued until 

 the 27th, when operations were discontinued, as only 66,022 brook and 

 lake trout eggs had been secured. The failure at this point was appar- 



