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The experts in iisli culture who visited this station 

 during the development of the eggs, pronounced the eggs 

 and young fish in the most healthy condition ; and there 

 was a marked diiferece between the a|)pearance of the 

 fish hatched in these pure cold waters and those hatched 

 in the warmer waters of the hatching-house in Druid 

 Hill Park. 



I am convinced that by means of this system of movea- 

 ble hatching apx^aratus our streams can be much better 

 stocked with the salmonida3 than by the system hitherto 

 pursued of developing the eggs in hatching-houses and 

 transferring the young fish thence. 



• Colonel Hughlett, the Commissioner of Fisheries for 

 the Eastern Sfiore, having received a like number of eggs 

 from the U. S. Commissioner, the resources of the Druid 

 Hill hatching-house were placed at his disposal for their 

 proper care nnd development, it being also considered 

 that Baltimore was the most convenient point for their 

 distribution to the waters of his district, as the several 

 lines of transportation centre in that city. 



Ten thousand young iish of this lot were kindly turned 

 over to me by Col. Hughlett, 5,000 of Avhich were pUiced 

 in the head waters of the Gunpowder River and the rest 

 in the Patuxent near Savage Station. The few young 

 California salmon hatched at the Druid Hill 1 latching - 

 house, from eggs received in the fall of 1879 and re- 

 remaining on hand when the report of the operations of 

 that year was submitted, were distributed, as shown in 

 the following table, on January 6, March 9 and 25. 



1'he table also shows the date on which the fish pro- 

 duced from the eggs hatched for Col. Hughlett were 

 turned over to his messenger. The names of the streams 

 stocked and the places at which they were deposited 

 will no doubt appear in Col. Hiiglilett- s report. 



