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many of them being berried. The fishermen report a great many 

 small lobsters — no doubt from last season's planting. 



Our record of sea bass was rather small owing to the difficulty 

 of keeping the eggs in the floating boxes. This trouble can be 

 overcome another season by doing the work in the hatchery 

 building erected for this purpose. This building is to be used 

 for bass and lobster hatching. 



The improvements made this season include the small hatchery 

 building at Montauk, L. L, and the one built near the main hatch- 

 ery at Cold Spring Harbor, to be used for salt water work. We 

 have made some repairs on our salt water ponds which supply 

 this hatchery. Part of our grounds have been filled in, im- 

 proving a very unsightly spot. We have made other small 

 improvements. 



Respectfully yours, 



CHARLES H. WALTERS, 



Foreman. 



Cold Spring Harbor, N". Y., October 1, 1911. 



Delaware Station. 



The work of this hatchery for the past year has been quite 

 satisfactory. About 500 cans of brook and brown trout were 

 planted. The fish did well after hatching, no disease of a serious 

 nature appearing among them. This I ascribe to a very liberal 

 use of salt almost from the time the sac was absorbed. 



We had another dry season, although it did not last as long 

 as last year. We had most of our small fish planted before the 

 drought came on ; but we lost quite a few of our stock fish in the 

 ponds. We had plenty of rain the latter part of the summer and 

 this fall, so that the ground is now pretty well filled with water 

 for the winter. 



The improvements have been quite extensive this year, such 

 as painting hatchery buildings, workshop and icehouse, laying 

 a new cement sluice or outlet from races to brook, relining head 

 trough and sluice around races, laying a short piece of cement 

 walk, replanking cover for intake pipe at dam, placing new 



