REPORT OF COMMISSIONER Of FISH AND FISHERIES. 41 
station, and for the purchase of additional grounds adjacent to those 
now occupied and used as such fish-hatching station.” An appropria- 
tion of $5,000 was also made by the same bill for the erection of new 
buildings on the property. Deeds transferring the property already 
under lease and the additional adjacent grounds deemed necessary for 
the station, as also the right of way over contiguous lands for a pipe 
line and the control of certain water rights, were passed in February, 
1891. These were referred to the Attorney-General, and toward the end 
of the following month was received his certification as to their sufti- 
ciency to vest in the United States a valid title to the property. The 
houses on the property being sufficient for the immediate needs of the 
station, it was the intention of the Commissioner to proceed at once with 
the construction of additional ponds, the introduction of an increased 
water supply, ete., to meet the expense of which the appropriation of 
$5,000 for new buildings was supposed to ve applicable. The First 
Comptroller of the Treasury, however, deciding that the money could 
be expended only for new buildings, as defined in conimon parlance, the 
work had to be deferred till Congress could be asked to modify the phra- 
seology of the appropriation so as to permit its use in the way desired. 
The brood fish on hand at the commencement of the fiscal year were 
found to be as follows: Brook trout, 945; Loch Leven trout, 4,545; Von 
Behr trout, 2,075; rainbow trout, 4,053. 
Whitefish._—The propagation of the whitefish at this station was dis- 
continued and an expansion of the work made at Duluth and Put-in 
Bay stations. This permits the application of all available water supply 
and space to the hatching and rearing of trout, and will obviate the 
necessity, by reason of insufficient space for their care, of liberating the 
fingerlings in advance of the regular season of distribution. 
Von Behr trout.—Kges were taken during sixty-five days following 
October 24, 1890, and numbered 324,900, of which 226,000 were trans- 
ferred. The fingerlings and yearlings furnished for distribution were 
18,655. ‘There were received from Germany, through the Cold Spring 
Harbor Station, in February and March, two consignments of eggs of 
this species aggregating 31,000. ‘ 
Brook trout.—Eggs were taken through a period of seventy-three days 
following October 7, 1890, the number obtained being 240,200, of which 
110,000 were transferred to other hatcheries. Fingerling and yearling 
brook trout to the number of 16,795 were furnished for liberation, com- 
mencing September, 1890, 
Loch Leven trout.—The collection of eggs of this species continued dur- 
ing the months of November and December, 1890, the number obtained 
being 222,200, of which 80,000 were transferred. Fingerlings and year- 
lings furnished for distribution numbered 14,775. 
Lake trout.—EKgegs to the number of 4,901,000 were forwarded from 
the Alpena Station, the production being greater by 1,000,000 than in 
any previous year, ‘To stations of the Commission, State commission- 
