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and from what I have heard of them, this seems to be one of the 
greatest essentials to their welfare. It would do no harm to try 
the experiment, if we had the fish. I have been expecting some 
spawn of this variety, and if they come can undoubtedly send 
you a few thousand if you desire it. 
The Ontario salmon do not take the baited hook like the 
salmon-trout ; they are caught with the artificial fly when in 
rivers ; never have heard of one being caught except with net 
in Lake Ontario. : 
Yours, | SETH GREEN 
I should like to visit you very much and enjoy fishing with 
you in Otsego Lake, and may do so next summer if I get time. 
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Cooperstown, March 22, 1880, 
My Dear Sir—Please read the enclosed, and after confering 
with the members of the Association on the 2oth, let me 
know your joint opinion as to the probable success of the ex- 
periment alluded to in our lake. The fish were planted (say 
4,000) in June, 1877. Our lake is the source of the Susquehan- 
na river, and is mainly supplied by bottom springs. At the 
head of it are several good-sized brooks, one of them a mill- 
stream upon which a boat may be rowed for a quarter of a mile. 
These streams are, I presume, too small for salmon to run up. 
So, if Mr. Green is correct, we may fail. It is, at any rate, an 
interesting question. Are any similar cases recorded in which 
_ this fish, being strictly land-locked, has matured or propagated ? 
Can you give me Mr. Ricardo’s address, and tell me how 
~ many smelt Mr. Hartson started with from New Jersey. : 
Yours truly, EK. PHINNEY. 
Hon. E. G. Buackrorp, 
State Comm¢ssioner of Fish. 
Dr. W. M. Hupson gave the experience of the Connecticut 
State Fish Commissioners with the land-locked salmon, and 
_ Stated that whether they would spawn or not he was not as yet 
decided about. 
