176 FISH CULTUEE 



perintendent of the East Grland station, suc- 

 ceeded in raising a few from the eggs to ma- 

 turity, and in securing eggs therefrom. The 

 superintendent of the Bellefonte hatchery 

 reared six to spawning age. Unfortunately 

 they were all females, and each was stunted. 

 At the age of four years the largest was 

 scarcely 15 inches long, and at five years they 

 had hardly added another inch to their length. 



The Pennsylvania superintendents found almost in- 

 superable difficulties in inducing the young fish to 

 take food. Nothing seemed to tame them. They 

 were so wild that whenever any one approached the 

 pond they scattered in all directions hiding wherever 

 they could. The superintendent of the Bellfonte 

 station was unable to make them take any food while 

 in the fingerling stage, excepting a half dozen which 

 afterward reached maturity ; he achieved success with 

 these only by placing them in a pond containing 

 brook-trout of the same size. The superintendent of 

 the Wayne station managed to induce his first stock 

 of fingerlings to eat a small quantity of food by hid- 

 ing himself in a small reservoir at the head of the 

 pond, and allowing food to be carried to the fish by 

 means of the intake pipe. A second lot took food 

 more freely when it was supplied by means of an auto- 

 matic feeder, and when with the food a very small 



