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The eggs commenced to hatch. May 12th. We shipped 9,700,000 

 fry and planted 20,000,000 in Oneida lake. 



During our pikeperch fishing we caught gravid yellow perch 

 from the eggs of which we obtained 100,000,000 fry for planting 

 in Oneida lake. 



From April 22d to May 14th we placed 377 black bass in the 

 hatchery ponds, 200 males and 177 females. From the eggs of 

 these fish we shipped, from May 31st to June 30th, 50,000 ad- 

 vanced fry to Linlithgo station, 54,000 advanced fry to 131 ap- 

 plicants and deposited 296,000 advanced fry in Oneida lake. We 

 also shipped to applicants 2,700 black bass fingerlings and placed 

 100,000 fingerlings in Oneida lake. We were obliged to place 

 our advanced fry and fingerlings in the lake before the water in 

 the hatchery reservoir reached the low level of former years. 



We have built new walls and concrete floor in the stripping 

 house, and placed new sills under the building. We have built 

 five new cypress tanks — four in the stripping house and one 

 outside. 



In pond No. 4, at the hatchery, we have laid 160 feet of four- 

 inch cast iron supply pipe west of the present inlet. This gives 

 a flow of water from both ends of the pond. In pond No. 3 we 

 have rebuilt the penstock. 



We have had some trouble with the old wooden flume conveying 

 water from the hatchery reservoir to the bass ponds. The boards 

 are rotten and the flume is constantlv caving in. 



The west end of the hatchery building, which has been settling 

 for some years, has been raised. New foundation wall and sill 

 have been placed under it. One new head trough has been built 

 in the hatchery and new sides put on two others. 



From August 31st to September 4th there were sent to the 

 State Fair at Syracuse 135 fish comprising 86 adults, 47 finger- 

 lings and 2 yearlings representing 24 different species found in 

 Oneida lake. 



About July 20, 1914, we learned that the rosy-faced minnow 

 had been found in Angevine's bay. Specimens were obtained and 

 sent to the office for identification. A single additional specimen 

 was secured later. — Reported by Dan E. Miller, Foreman, Con- 

 stantia, N. Y. 



