EEPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. XXV 



B. — Propagation of SalmoniDjE. 



4. Grand Lake Stream^ Me. — The propagation of the landlocked or 

 Schoodic salmon is carried on here on a large scale, under the direction 

 of Mr. Charles G. Atkins. 



5. Budksportj Me. — The work of this station, also in charge of Mr. 

 Atkins, is primarily connected with the multiplication of Penobscot 

 salmon. 



6. N'orthviUe, Mich. — This establishment is principally concerned in 

 the hatching of whitefish, which are collected by Mr. F. W. Clark and 

 his assistants, and at the proper time are either forwarded, in the con- 

 dition of embryonization, to distant points, or entirely hatched out and 

 the minnows transmitted to suitable localities. The station is also 

 used for breeding the Eastern brook-trout and the California trout, of 

 which a good stock is maintained. Two new trout ponds were com- 

 pleted in June. 



7. Alpetia, Mich. — This station was established in 1882 for the white- 

 fish service, as being conveniently near the best localities for taking 

 the eggs. It is kept as a feeder to the Northville station, which is the 

 main one. 



8. Baird, Shasta County, California — This station, on the McCIoud 

 Eiver, is devoted exclusively to the cultivation of the California salmon, 

 for which it is eminently adapted. 



9. Trout ponds near Baird, Shasta County, California. — This locality, 

 situated about 5 miles from the salmon station, is devoted to keeping up 

 a large stock of California trout to supply eggs for eastern waters. The 

 wild character of the region may be readily understood from the fact 

 that the trout are fed on the meat of the black-tailed deer, as being the 

 cheapest food that can be sujDplied to them. 



10. Wytheville, Va. — In view of the expense attendant upon the trans- 

 porting of the young Salmonidse, such as California trout, brook-trout, 

 landlocked salmon, &c., from IsTorthville, Mich., and other stations, to 

 distant points, espec^ially the southern Alleghanies, it was concluded 

 best to establish a station for hatching the same somewhere in the 

 mountains of Virginia, as giving convenient access to the principal 

 States having a water-supply fitted for the growth of such species. 

 The Virginia fish commissioner had several years ago selected a locality 

 near Wytheville, Va., as the most eligible spot known to him, and where 

 an almost inexhaustible volume of cold spring water of the utmost 

 purity was procilrable. An arrangement was accordingly made to rent 

 this station for the purpose in question, at a reasonable price; and a 

 large number of eggs were sent there in the autumn of 1883, and suc- 

 cessfully hatched out. 



11. Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y. — For the purpose of hatching eggs 

 of the salmon and of the whitefish for introduction into the rivers and 

 lakes of Northern Pennsylvania, New York, and other adjacent States, 

 arrangements were made to occupy, in part at least, the station of the 



