1008 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. [2] 



There were taken 2,535,000 eggs in good condition, an average yield 

 of 12,000 from each female. 



Of defective eggs there were taken out at the regular pickings, per- 

 formed for the most part weekly during their stay in the hatchery, 

 £h total of 45,659, and 69,950 unfertilized were discovered by means of 

 concussion and removed just before shipment. The total losses prior 

 to shipment were, therefore, 115,609, or 4.6 per cent, of the original 

 number, leaving for shipment 2,420,000 healthy eggs. A pro rata divis- 

 ion gave to the United States 1,370,000 ; to Maine, 700,000 ; to Massa- 

 chusetts, 350,000. 



The eggs reached the stage for transportation in January, and between 

 January 30 and March 17 they were all dispatched in the usual manner 

 and transported to their destinations with entire success. 



The eggs falling to the share of the United States were assigned as 

 follows : 



To the Cold Spring Harbor hatchery, New York. 500, 000 



To the Central Station, Washington, D. C :... 100,000 



To the New Hampshire commissioners 100, 000 



To the Massachusetts commissioners 100, 000 



To the Maine commissioners 540, 000 



To Northville, Mich 30,000 



The half million assigned to the Cold Spring Harbor hatchery were 

 forwarded in three shiphients, and reached their destination with a loss 

 of but 229. The net result of incubation was 448,739 fish, of which 

 5,000 were retained in a rearing pond, to be planted hereafter (in No- 

 vember, 1884) in some tributary of the Hudson. The bulk of the fry 

 were planted between April 30 and May 27. In Loon Lake, tributary 

 to Schroon Eiver, were placed 40,000 ; the same number in Tuthill and 

 Beaver Dam brooks, tributary to Salmon Eiver; the remainder, 363,739, 

 were placed in several small streams in Warren County, tributary to 

 the Hudson. 



The package of 100,000 eggs addressed to the Central Station was 

 forwarded thence to the Wytheville (Virginia) hatchery, and only 26 

 were found to be dead on unpacking. The superintendent, Mr. Seagle, 

 said of them : " These eggs are perfectly faultless, so far as I can see ; 

 much the best lot I have ever received here." The losses during incu- 

 bation were about 2,000. Of those hatched, 50,000 were planted in 

 Oswego Eiver, New York. 



The eggs falling to Massachusetts, together with those assigned by 

 the United States to Massachusetts and New Hampshire, amounting 

 in all to 550,000, were forwarded to the joint hatchery of those States, 

 at Plymouth, N. H. The aggregate losses en route were only 153. The 

 incubation was conducted with slight loss, and all the fry planted in 

 June in the Pemigewasset Eiver, a tributary of the Merrimac, in the 

 towns of Oompton, Plymouth, Thorntou, and Woodstock. 



The eggs received by the Maine commissioners, 1,240,000 in number. 



