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the New York Aquarium. The albinos mentioned above were strong, and perfect 

 in every way, and fully as large as any of the fish from the same hatch." 



At the Combs Brook Hatchery, belonging to the Adirondack League Club, 

 out of 300,000 brook trout eggs hatched in 1897 there appeared four pure albinos. 

 One of these lived to a year old, and reached a length of five inches. 



Mr. A. W. Marks, who has had charge of private hatcheries at Cedar Island, 

 Wis., at Detroit, and now at Munising, Mich., says: "We find more or less 

 albinos among our fry, but more among the salmon or lake trout than among 

 the brooks. One season at Cedar Island we hatched 100 of these fish. They 

 were the pure albinos with pink eyes and white flesh, the fins tinged with 

 pink. The eggs were taken from wild brook trout. The fish were raised with our 

 brook trout until planted, and were as healthy and grew as rapidly as the others." 



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Mr. Livingstone Stone, Superintendent of the United States Fisheries Station, 

 Cape Vincent, N. Y. author of "The Domesticated Trout," says; "About one 

 albino trout appears from a million eggs that are hatched, and always from 

 domesticated fish. I never saw pure albinos except from the ordinary eastern 

 brook trout. My fish died soon after beginning to feed, and had attained the 

 same size that brook trout of that age reach." 



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Correspondence with several commercial fish hatcheries in Massachusetts brings 

 different replies. In some cases they never heard of an albino while others say 

 they have a few each year. They gave them no particular attention and they 

 disappeared with the others. 



The Minnesota State Fish Hatchery, at St. Paul, has had remarkable success 

 in the propagation of these fish. In 1893 they got three albinos from the fry 

 hatched that year. Two of these died later and one reached maturity. Two 

 years later three or four were found, and two of these reached maturity. From this 

 beginning they now have some 25,000 eggs, about 10,000 fry, and perhaps 500 

 adults of all ages. The first albinos hatched came from pond fish which were 

 raised from wild ones. Mr. S. F. Fullerton, Executive Agent, advises me that they 

 fertilize the albino egg with milt of the albino male, and that the result is 

 pure albinos every time. A dark fish has not appeared among them in several years. 

 They propagate them entirely from this strain, the fish being all domesticated 

 and fed on liver. They make the same growth as the native brooks and are just as 



