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hatching-box, for the use of which a royalty of $100 a year 
was paid. 
_ In the spring of 1876 nearly ten million whitefish were 
hatched, and the plant in Michigan was nine million three 
hundred and ten thousand. 
The rather boastful mention of this then unparalleled 
hatch in the Second Report of the Commission is some- 
what amusing in the light of what is now being done in 
that line. 
In the organic act provision was made for co-operation 
with other States contiguous to the waters of Michigan, 
which should make appropriations for the work and ex- 
press a desire for joint action; and in the report of 1876 
mention is made that several of the States bordering upon 
the Great Lakes, notably Ohio, Wisconsin and Minnesota, 
‘‘have got sharply to work upon the whitefish.” 
The planting of salmon trout was begun in 1875, when 
one hundred and fifty thousand fry were purchased of N. 
W. Clark & Son, at the price of two dollars a thousand, 
and planted in the inland lakes of the State. The work 
on the Atlantic, the California and the land-locked salmon 
continued through the seasons of 1875 and 1876. In the 
meantime, Eli R. Miller, of Richland, had succeeded Gov- 
ernor Bagley as Commissioner, and was made President of 
the Board, the statute having been so amended as to pro- 
vide for three Commissioners, one for two years, one for 
four years and one for six years, and their successors to be 
appointed to a term of six yearseach. The appropriations 
for 1875 and 1876 were seven thousand dollars for each 
year. Twenty-two States were at this time more or less 
actively engaged in fishculture. 
In 1877, the whitefish plant exceeded eight millions. 
Some experiments were made in hatching the herring and 
the German whitefish. In the Third Report the Commis- 
sion congratulates itself that while it had paid a dollar 
a thousand for hatching whitefish, it now was producing 
