194 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT OP THE 



At Constantia the buck eye was still in Scriba creek on May 10, 1906, 

 and on November 9 of the same year it had begun to ascend, but not in 

 large numbers. Foreman Scriba was expecting the big run before the 

 creek froze up. 



Shad. 



The egg collecting season on the Delaware was very unsatisfactory 

 and from the Hudson no eggs at all were obtained. Only about 400,000 

 fry were secured, and these were planted in Roeliff Jansen Kill, a large 

 tributary of the Hudson near Linlithgo. An arrangement was made with 

 the Pennsylvania Commission by which we were to pay $10 per million 

 for good eggs, and we were to send our own spawn takers. Three men 

 were detailed by Foreman Walters on April 17th for this work. Up to 

 the 9th of May there were obtained in all only about 100,000 shad eggs 

 from the Delaware. 



At the new station to be established near Linlithgo, N. Y., it is intended 

 to rear shad to the fmgerling age and liberate them in the fall in the Roeliff 

 Jansen Kill, from which stream they will make their way into the Hudson 

 without obstruction. The site for this new station is at the junction of the 

 Kleine Kill with the Roeliff Jansen Kill and embraces about twenty-five 

 acres of ground abutting on the two streams mentioned. The Roeliff 

 Jansen Kill is a beautiful stream containing, in its upper waters, many 

 black bass. The creek has a sufficient fall so that by building a low dam 

 water could be run by gravity through an old mill race on one of the tracts 

 of ground obtained for the new station or, without damming the stream, 

 water can readily be pumped into the race and the ponds which are to be 

 constructed. The Kleine Kill is a small stream, but contains sufficient 

 water at its lowest stage for considerable work. It has a series of falls 

 aggregating about fifty feet in a distance of 400 yards and in such relation 

 to the land as to make its conveyance by gravity effective and inexpensive. 



The number of shad caught in the Hudson river in 1906 was too small 

 to be worthy of consideration. 



Smelt. 



Remembering the successful work of George Ricardo in hatching smelt 

 from the Hackensack river, New Jersey, information was sought from him 



