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the owner of the lake, and the surplus was sent to the Delaware 

 hatchery. Mr. E. C. Brown, of Copake, presented to the hatch- 

 ery 60 quarts of yellow perch eggs. The Pennsylvania Fish 

 Commission gave us nearly 2,000,000 shad fry from its Torres- 

 dale hatchery in exchange for pike perch eggs collected at the 

 Oneida hatchery. 



The shad rearing operations resulted in the planting of 300,000 

 fingerlings from fry placed in the pond May 21, fed on water 

 meal and liberated in the Kleinekill August 28th. The number 

 of calico bass fingerlings reared in 1912 is larger than in all 

 previous years combined. They had not been liberated at the 

 time of closing this report. The method of rearing this fish has 

 been partially solved here for the first time. 



One of the difficulties at this station is to supply food enough 

 for the brood bass during the summer. Unless the river fish are 

 more abundant during the coming year, it will be necessary to 

 buy food for the bass. Only one brood bass has died this year. 



Two new ponds have been built. With the present water 

 supply only one more can be established. If a concrete dam were 

 built across the Poeliff Jansen Kill at or near the site of the old 

 dam which was standing in part when the property was acquired 

 by the State, an unlimited supply of water would be furnished, 

 many additional ponds could be built and the work of the station 

 greatly increased. — Reported by Wallace D. Whines, Foreman, 

 Linlithgo, N. Y. 



Experiments have been made in the propagation of the short- 

 nosed sturgeon at Linlithgo for the past two years. The fish 

 spawned in 1911 and 1912; but the fry were not discovered in 

 1911 when the pond was drained, and it is uncertain whether any 

 will be seen as the result of the spawning in 1912. It seems that 

 black bass and other predaceous fish get into the pond in some 

 mysterious way and destroy all the young sturgeon. About . 100 

 sturgeon were placed in a pond during the shad fishing season, and 

 no difficulty was experienced in keeping them alive and in excellent 

 condition. Perhaps the experiment will be repeated and further 

 efforts made to protect the fry from their enemies in the future. 

 The calico bass produced a considerable number of young in a 

 pond containing sturgeon, and it appears that the spawning fish 



