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each manfully to work. They labored early and late. The fallen timber 

 and underbrush and tang'led vines were cleared away, the pverplus of 

 trees cut down to g'ive the rest room to spread, the marsh was drained, 

 logs and stumps taken from the ponds, and the place generally put in 

 ship-shape condition, and a new office and sleeping room was built. 

 Eight additional ponds were then constructed, a handsome carriage 

 drive built, a number of winding gravelled walks laid out, a good por- 

 tion of the property sodded, some fountains erected, two or three rustic 

 bridges thrown across the streams and ravine, and the whole place given 

 a park like appearance, all at a trifling cost, for being deeply interested 

 in his work, everything was done either by Mr. Buller himself or under 

 his direct supervision, and the state, as a result, received all the benefit. 



So attractive was the place made that it speedily became a resort for 

 the people of Corry. Its handsome grove of white pines and rows of 

 shapely maple trees set along the carriage drive made it even a place 

 for strangers from even distant points to come to. The public were 

 made welcome under certain rules and regulations. Picnic parties, for 

 instance, were, of necessity, forbidden, as also was the feeding of fish or 

 the disturbing of them in any way. 



As the years went on and the work of the Pennsylvania Fish Commis- 

 sion became better known to the people of the commonwealth, there 

 came constantly increasing demands for fry for restocking purposes. 

 Of course, the heaviest was for the great commercial food fishes like the 

 shad, pike-perch and white fish, but a vast number of trout fry were de- 

 manded by farmers and others, with which to stock streams which had 

 become depleted by illegal fishing and water pollution. To meet this 

 demand, the Fish Commissioners, in 1890, enlarged the western hatching 

 house and purchased several additional acres of land adjoining that 

 which they had, and on this new ponds were excavated. Even though 

 this was done, and the capacity for hatching trout fry was doubled, the 

 demands of the public are growing faster than the capacity of the plant, 

 and more property will be needed at Corry before long to meet tliat de- 

 mand. 



The hatchway was lengthened to one hundred and ten feet and raised 

 four. It contains eighty-eight hatching troughs, forty-four on each side 

 the building. They are arranged in pairs, with narrow pathways be- 

 tween them, to enable the superintendent and his assistants to watch 

 the process of incubation more closely. 



These troughs differ from those in use in the other hatchery owned 

 by the state, in that they are each twelve feet long, eighteen inches wide 

 and seven inches deep. Besides their capacity, these troughs differ in 

 being higher and much easier to work. Each one has a capacity for 

 20,000 freshly hatched fish, although at the end of two months this num- 

 ber must be lowered to 15,000. 



Besides the addition made to the hatchway and to the grounds 



