IO Fish Cultural Association. 
have counted the eggs and fish carefully, and I think that in 
the New York State Hatching-House we impregnated 95 per 
cent., and I think our work will show. ; 
THe PRESIDENT: You mean you hatched 95? 
Mr. Green: He hatched 95 per cent. We have now 
1,600,000 brook-trout that we expect to distribute in this 
state during this coming spring. This year I had the most 
favorable reports from the streams we have stocked. There 
was one little stream where I had placed three thousand trout. 
It was three-quarters of a mile long. I visited it last week. 
I could see that the stream was perfectly alive with the little 
fish two to three and a half inches long. 
Tue Presipenr: Mr. Porter says that after three yeans 
you would have but 5 per cent. of fish. 
Mr. Green: I would not hesitate to say that with fair 
usage 50 per cent. would be as small a number for good trout,-if 
planted in proper water. I know that in these streams I have 
stocked there are to-day 80 per cent. of fish in as good con- 
dition as I put them in. | 
Tue Presipenr: It seems to me that the proportion of 
loss given by Mr. Porter is very great. 
Mr. Green: I think it is... ‘For the last three years we-> 
have never had any trouble in raising any kind of fish. 
We have salmon-trout now, five years old, in our works, 
and weighing ten pounds, and a great many of them. We 
have Kennebec salmon five years, and not any of them 
weighing over two pounds. The first, second, and third 
years they grew, and then seemed to stop. We have Cali- 
fornia brook-trout, two years old, that are certainly twice 
as large as our brook-trout the same age. They are a 
tough, hard, gamy little fish, and we raised them in the 
same way as any other fish, without the least trouble. They 
