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-lowest, affording the best facilities for aerating the water and using 
it repeatedly. 1ts location is more convenient for all purposes than 
either of the other houses at Grand Lake stream. 
The eggs at this Establishment will be ready for shipment about 
the same time as the Penobscot eggs. The original 900,000 will 
probably be reduced by the ordinary losses to 800,000. The re- 
serve for the lake wili take 200,000 more, leaving 600,000 to be 
divided among the subscribers. 
The division will be as follows: 
State. Contribution. Quota of Eggs. 
Maine, - - - - $300 60,000 
New Hampshire, - . 250 50,000 
Massachusetts, - - - 500 100,000 
Connecticut, - - - 500 100.000 
United States, about - 1,450 290,000 
$3,000 600,000 
The foreman at Grand Lake stream is Mr. Wm. H. Munson, in 
whose faithfulness and vigilance I have the most entire confidence. 
Tam myself present during the most critical parts of the season, 
including the spawning season, and generally during the packing 
and shipment of spawn ; but at all other times Mr. Munson has 
sole charge. You have observed that the Schoodic eggs suffer a 
greater percentage of loss than the Penobscot. This must not be 
attributed to the management, but to some cause connected with 
the condition of the parent fish itself, the precise nature of which 
is not yet fully understood. 
Very truly yours, 
CHAS. G. ATKINS: 
SHAD (Alosa Sapidissima). 
Shad hatching operations were entrusted to Messrs. Chalker 
and Rankin, who were similarly employed last year. They 
hatched out, and turned into the Farmington River, 2,123,000 
young shad. About the same time Prof. Baird, at the request 
of U.S. Senator Joseph R. Hawley, sent 1,000,000 young shad 
from the Delaware River, which were put into the Connecti- 
cut River above the Railroad bridge at Warehouse Point. 
Messrs. Chalker and Rankin, as well as some of the pound 
fishermen, were strongly of the opinion that shad could be 
