REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 21 
on the 20th of June it was duly signed by Mr. Foster. For the hatch- 
ery the price was $4,174.80; for the dwelling house, $3,007; and for 
the stable and tool-house, $1,317, contract for which was made June 13, 
1891. The flume, which will have a length of nearly 7,050 feet, will 
aggregate a cost of about $6,800. 
1889-90. 
Pending the acquirement of a site, it was decided to begin fish-cultural 
operations at Green Lake in the fall of 1889. A camp was established 
on the lower part of Great Brook for the collection of eggs, arrange- 
ments being made by erecting barriers to prevent the further ascent 
of the salmon and an inclosure for their retention till ready to spawn. 
For the development of the eggs secured a cheap structure containing 
the necessary trough space was put at Mann Brook. 
Operations in spawn-taking were begun November 4, and in eleven 
days 294,700 eggs were produced from 75 females, the catch of males 
being 50. The eggs developed slowly, the water being very cold. On 
April 8, 1890, 10,000 eges were forwarded to Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y., 
and from those remaining there were produced 150,000 fry, which 
were liberated in Green Lake, in June. In October, 1889, a consign- 
ment of landlocked salmon and rainbow trout, which had been held at 
Craig Brook Station till 7 months old, was received and liberated 
in Green Lake and tributaries. 
Upon weighing and measuring the Green Lake salmon it was found 
that they were twice the size of those of Grand Lake Stream, 69 full- 
roed females averaging 7.8 pounds in weight and 25.5 inches in length; 
the average weight of 50 males being 5.01 pounds, and their length 
22.3 inches. One female weizhed 11 pounds 9 ounces and measured 30 
inches; another, 11 pounds 6 ounces in weight, was 305 inches long; 
one male reached 13 pounds 8 ounces in weight and was 31 inches long. 
1890-91. 
The production of landlocked salmon eggs between October 31 and 
November 21, 1890, was 185,000. The fry from these, with the excep- 
tion of 3,000 released June 10, 1891, on account of fungus, were kept in 
rearing troughs beyond the termination of the present fiscal year. The 
adult fish captured, 46 females and 21 males, were again found to be of 
large size, the former averaging 7 pounds in weight and 25.2 inches in 
length, and the latter 6 pounds 9 ounces in weight and 25.1 inches in 
length, while 3 females and 4 males were in excess of 10 pounds weight 
each. At the close of spawn-taking, in November, the barriers were 
removed and these brood fish set free in the lake. Another consign- 
ment of reared fish, 7 months old, consisting of Swiss lake trout, land- 
locked salmon, and Loch Leven trout, was received in October, 1890, 
from Craig Brook Station and placed in Green Lake and its tribu- 
taries. 
