62 Fish, Fishing and Fisheries of Pennsylvania. 



through appropriation of the state, Mr. Buller last year erected at odd 

 times in one corner of the place a meat house and a water wheel, so that 

 the labor of cutting meat by hand to feed the fish has been done away 

 with, and is now done better and more expeditiously by machinery. 



The Corry hatchery now has thirty-one ponds for breeding purposes. 

 One of these are for large lake trout, and there are here fish which weigh 

 eighteen and twenty pounds, while the average of the fish will tip the 

 scales at ten pounds. 



Two other ponds are for large hybrid trout, some of which weigh as 

 much as five pounds, while there are few under two. 



Two ponds are for large brook trout, not one of which will weigh less 

 than a pound. 



Two more are for the brown trout of Europe, which was first intro- 

 duced into the United States from Germany, in February, 1883, and of 

 which much is expected. The fish in these ponds are but three years 

 old and they run almost uniformly about three-quarters of a pound, al- 

 though there are a few of more than two pounds. 



One pond is set aside for California trout, of which much was expected 

 some years ago, and the fish in them average two pounds each. 



The other ponds, except three, are for two and three year old fish 

 and yearlings, the three exceptions are generally used for yellow perch, 

 or as they are better known about Philadelphia, "yellow neds." 



While the work of this hatchery is supposed to be for trout of various 

 kinds only, other fish are sometimes hatched. During last autumn, for 

 instance, several milUon white fish eggs were cleaned up and later trans- 

 ferred to the hatchery at Erie, and this season Mr. Buller proposes to 

 make the experiment of relieving the overcrowded hatchery at Erie, by 

 hatching pike-perch eggs at the Corry station. 



Mr. Buller has been very successful in taking and handling pike-perch 

 eggs and during the past two years has taken and hatched many million 

 eggs of that species at Erie, of which he is also superintendent. 



