176 Fikst Annual Report of the 



REPORTS FROM THE HATCHERIES. 



Adirondack Station. 



The work at this station for 1911 has been along the usual 

 lines, and we have had very good success, meeting, of course, with 

 some difficulties such as are always found in fish cultural work, 

 where so much depends upon the weather, the condition of the 

 water, etc. 



During the past season 1,012 applications have been filled from 

 this hatchery. These applications called for 7,416,952 fish. Of 

 this number 2,337,825 were brook trout, the remainder being 

 lake, brown, rainbow, black spotted trout, whitefish and 

 frostfish. 



We met with fairly good success in collecting brook trout 

 eggs, last fall; but the number of lake trout eggs collected was 

 small. On the hatchery preserve we have a body of water, Little 

 Green pond, which to me seems an ideal place for lake trout, 

 and I think good results could be obtained by stocking this water 

 heavily with this species of fish. Most of our lake trout eggs 

 obtained last fall were taken from this lake. 



Through the courtesy of Mr. E. H. Johnson, superintendent, 

 we are taking eggs on the Whitney Preserve, at Long Lake West. 

 We hope to take a large number of eggs there, as the waters on 

 this preserve seem to be well stocked with trout. 



We have decided not to take eggs in Lake Placid this season, 

 as some of the campers and residents on the lake objected to the 

 nets being placed there, they having an erroneous idea that it 

 was injurious to the fish to take spawn from them. So much 

 difficulty was experienced by the nets being robbed and destroyed 

 that we decided to put them elsewhere. A liberal number of fish 

 has always been granted to the applicants for these waters, a 

 plant of 2,805,000 whitefish being placed in Lake Placid and 

 Mirror lake in 1911. 



During the month of July we received from Henry Davidson, 

 foreman of the Batch hatchery, 124,000 brook trout fingerlings 

 which were placed in the waters of this vicinity. 



As in former years, we put nets in Little Green pond, to secure 

 rainbow and black spotted trout eggs. We were fairly sue- 



