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on November 16. The total catcli was 1685, of which 7S6 were 

 females and 899 males besides several thousand small whitefish 

 which were too young to spawn. The quantity of whitefish eggs 

 taken was 263 quarts or 11,046,000 eggs, of which 1,680,000 

 were shipped to the Oneida hatchery. The number of lake trout 

 eggs from fish caught in the whitefish net was smaller than usual, 

 and we did not take as many eggs from wild brook trout owing to 

 the work of putting in a new water main. This work could not 

 be done earlier because of the high water. Land-locked salmon 

 eggs were presented to the Commission by the United States 

 Bureau of Fisheries and the fingerlings resulting therefrom were 

 planted in Lake George. Several thousand visitors come to the 

 hatchery every year. The station needs a supply of spring water 

 so as to keep trout fingerlings safely during the summer months. 

 — Reported by William II. Burke, Foreman, Old Forge, N. Y. 



During most summers the lake water which supplies this sta- 

 tion becomes so warm in early June as to endanger the trout 

 fingerlings kept in the hatchery. It would be greatly advan- 

 tageous to buy certain springs in the vicinity which were utilized 

 at one time for keeping hatchery trout. As the trout at the 

 Adirondack hatchery develop very late we should have spring- 

 water at Fulton Chain. This hatchery distributes a great many 

 whitefish and frostfish to applicants for lakes of the Fulton 

 Chain and elsewhere, and it furnishes also about 500,000 brook 

 trout and a smaller number of lake trout each year. 



Linlithgo Station. 

 The large reservoir was cracked by frost the same as last year. 

 It has again been plugged with concrete; but the frost will open it 

 more and more every year until it goes to pieces. The fence 

 bounding the Bonneville estate has been built, and all of the 

 State's portion of the line fences is now protected by American 

 field fence 45 inches high. A new concrete sidewalk 40 feet long 

 and 4 feet wide has been laid from the front of the residence to 

 the road, and the engine and pump at the well east of the hatch- 

 ery have been covered by a suitable building. All the brook 

 trout eggs needed for the hatchery were collected in Alder lake, 

 Ulster county, through the generosity of Mr. S. D. Coykendall, 



