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pumps were connected up ready for installation, but were not connected to 

 the hatchery, and they could not be connected so as to use the water 

 until the fish are distributed, or at least a part of them, as the water must 

 be shut off while making the change. 



The pumps are rated to pump 6,500 gallons an hour, but the best work 

 Mr. Brown could get from them up to March 1st was about 3,000 gallons 

 per hour from one set of pumps. Mr. Brown is in doubt whether two sets 

 of pumps will furnish water enough to run the jars and troughs at the 

 same time. 



Respectfully, 



Randall R. Brown. 

 Bemus Point, N. Y., November 20, 1909. 



Cold Spring Harbor Hatchery 



To the Forest, Fish and Game Commission: 



The output was greatly increased over last season. Through the court- 

 esy of Mr. Slade, president of South Side Sportsmen's Club, Oakdale, Long 

 Island, we collected, from their ponds, over two million brook trout spawn. 

 These were fine eggs taken from good, clean, healthy trout. The two 

 million green brook trout eggs from Weissport, Pa., gave us over seventy- 

 five per cent good eggs. The water from flowing wells, cold and free from 

 dirt, has proved itself of excellent quality as we had no loss from disease of 

 any kind among our trout this past year. The over supply of oxygen, 

 which all artesian well water contains in this region, was disposed of by 

 running it the length of building before entering the supply trough. We 

 failed in the collection of torn cod eggs. Before the spawning season there 

 were plenty of fish, good catches being made by hand line fishermen; but 

 in December they all disappeared. In the Great South Bay, where we get 

 most of the spawn, not a fish could be caught. Later it was reported they 

 were being washed ashore by the surf on Rockaway Beach. We took 

 up hatching winter flat fish, the spawn collected from fish caught in Gardi- 

 ner's Bav by the fyke-net fishermen. This is a very important food fish on 

 the New York market. This work was cut short by our engine and pump 



