52 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 
The following table shows the daily collection of eggs received and 
fry hatched and planted at Edenton during the season: 
| £ hatched || E hapatebea 
: ggs atchec x ggs | hatchec 
Date. | received. and Date. received | and 
| planted. | planted. 
165, 000 65,000. Apr. ho, San ae es 1,771,000 | 1,310,000 
93, 000 80; 000 |) Ajors242 i225 52i 222 see ee 1,375,000 | 1,090, 000 
824, 000 558,000 || Apr.25..-----------------| 2,060,000 | 1,575,000 
827, 000 582:000' ||| Apri 26--2<-.22-..-222625 2,410,000 | 1,690, 000 
184, 000 135,000 |} Apr.27---------- eS 3,725,000 | 2,755, 000 
288, 000 190; 000: || “Aspr:29_--.-5 2.2252 222222) 05 99050003) it 450, 000 
1, 364, 000 983: 000%|| Atpriod0 co saveee ae ee == eee 3,915, 000 | 1.225.000 
2, 266, 000 1, 208, 000 fos Se eesheltn dance ena 4a R000 2, 900, 000 
1, 165, 000 835, 000 5140) 000 | 4,190,000 
8380, 000 176, 000 , 675,000 | 8,645, 000 
1, 862. 000 1, 160, 000 2,835,000 2,360, 000 
3, 701, 000 2, 244, 000 || 2, 240, 000 2,030, 000 
1,393, 000 8140000 | SMay oie. sea. eee 2,395, 000 2, 175, 000 
928, 000 300,000) || May: ‘8222--- i 22c2=-ee 1, 040, 000 910, 000 
1, 257, 000 700, OOO | May 0) Fea te eee ee 905, 000 825, 000 
8, 458, 000 1:,(686;.000) | May 10. 22-23. 222 2225---— 190, 000 175, 000 
8, 465,000 | 2,200,000 |} May 11.......----- eee: 350, 000 335, 000 
3,360,000 | 2,258,000 || May 15--....--....--2-.- 99, 000 79, 000 
3,530, 000 | 2 , 887, 000 | 
3, 405, 000 2° 005, 000 Motaly Sesser oe | 75,400,000 | 51,280, 000 
ERWIN STATION, TENNESSEE (ALEX. JONES, SUPERINTENDENT). 
The fingerlings on hand at the beginning of the year (130,560 rain- 
bow trout and 2,500 black bass) were carried until fall and fed as 
usual on a mush made of shorts, corn meal, and beef liver. They were 
distributed between October and December, the output being 1,258 
black bass and 89,125 rainbow trout, not including 5,000 trout held 
for brood stock. 
For the purpose of testing the merits of a manufactured preparation 
called animal meal, two 1,000 lots of rainbow trout were counted and 
weighed on October 22 and placed in ponds 9 and 10, where they 
remained until December 11, when they were again counted and 
weighed. The food given the fish in pond 9 consisted of a mush com- 
posed of 6 parts corn meal, 14 parts shorts, 3 parts animal meal, and 1 
of salt. During the period mentioned the fish in pond 9 consumed 96 
pounds of this material, the cost of same being $1.51, and on Decem- 
ber 11 they were found to have made a gain of 3 pounds, their weight 
on October 22 being 62 pounds. Each pound of fish gained therefore 
cost 43.6 cents. The fish in pond 10 weighed 7 pounds at the com- 
mencement of the experiment, and when taken out on December 11 
showed a gain of 8} pounds. In this pond 96 pounds of food were 
used, costing $1.58, making the cost of each pound of fish gained 19 
cents. The preparation given this lot consisted of 3 parts shorts and 
eorn meal to 2 parts of liver. 
Similar tests were made later in the same ponds with two 500 lots, 
the fish being held until May 20. Those fed on the preparation con- 
taining the animal meal were found to have gained 37 pounds, at a 
cost of 15 cents per pound, and the other lot had gained 77 pounds, at 
a cost of 84 cents per pound. As the food used in these experiments 
was carefully weighed and the conditions were identical, it seems 
apparent that liver and mush are preferable. : 
