82 
*1888 - - - 1,000,000 fry. 
1889 - - - 4,600,000 fry. 
ere { 3,950,000 fry. 
| 500,000 eggs sent away. 
1891 - - - 7,400,000 fry. 
1892 - - - 5,631,000 fry, and eggs sent away. 
1803140 - =. §7722,000 try. 
1894 - - 22.603,000 fry. 
Total planted 55,606,000 eggs and fry. 
Until this year there was no demand for the fry, 
because it was not understood that the Commission 
could furnish smelts; but the demand increased with 
the supply, and outside of the 11,083,000 planted in 
Cold Spring Harbor there were two plants on the South 
Side, three in the tributaries of Peconic Bay, one in 
Westchester county, and seven plants at different points 
on Long Island Sound. These plants were all made 
on special applications to the Commissioners of 
Fisheries, and it pleased them to have them made, 
because it showed appreciation of their work in a field 
that was almost new. 
The value of the smelt may be illustrated when we 
know that forty carloads were shipped to New York 
from New Brunswick this year, besides the supply from 
Maine, Rhode Island and other places. Long Island 
smelts do not now make a great figure in the market 
reports, but the plants of this year, which were of one 
million fry, in most cases, may work a change to the 
benefit of the fisherman and the consumer ina few years. 
Our figures this year were : 
Boos taken = -).= "- 7. +.) 2 7on. oes 
Loss of eggs] = ==" = 2" =o .105,a00 
Pry, planted) =~ - _- "= " 233607,00e 

*The March blizzard this year, from 12th to 20th, prevented getting eggs. 
}This loss includes two million eggs lost by the clogging of a tube supplying two 
jars on the night of March 17. 
