294 THE OREGON .SPORTSMAN 

The Oregon Stite Hatchery for Experiments in Fish Culture at 
Reed College, Portland, Oregon, 
THE OREGON STATE HATCHERY 
By Harry Beat Torrey, Reed College. 
It may not be generally known to the readers of the “Oregon 
Sportsman” that one of the first fish hatcheries in the United States 
to be devoted exclusively by any state to the scientific investigation 
of the many problems connected with the propagation of food and game 
fishes, was established less than three years ago, in Portland, by the 
Oregon State Fish and Game Commission. 
In 1913, this Commission appropriated one thousand dollars to 
build and equip an experiment station that should co-operate with the 
state hatcheries, aiding them by attacking problems to which they 
were not able to give time and attention. A site, well supplied with 
excellent water and otherwise admirably suited to the purpose, was 
found in the ravine running through the grounds of Reed College. 
Here, by arrangement with the trustees, the station was erected and 
the Professor of Biology of the college undertook the direction of its 
work. On January 1, 1914, ninety thousand Chinook salmon eggs 
arrived from Bonneville, and the first series of experiments was 
begun. Some of the results of these experiments have already ap- 
peared in the “Oregon Sportsman” for September, 1914, under the 
title: “Feeding Fingerling Salmon”; and in the Transactions of the 
American Fisheries Society for March, 1915, under the title ‘Notes 
on the Rearing of Salmon.” Later results are now being prepared for 
publication. I shall not consider them here, however, since this brief 
paper is especially concerned with a description of the station itself. 
The general appearance and setting of the station may be obtained 
from the accompanying photograph. The building is placed in the bed 
of a stream that runs through the ravine to the north of the gym- 
nasium. It faces to the south, and is approached by a raised board 
walk that crosses the stream. It is lighted on four sides by five 
groups of casement windows. It is thirty feet long by twenty feet 
wide and divided within by a partition into two rooms, each twenty 
by fifteen feet. 
Through the one outside door, that stands ajar in the photograph. 
one looks directly into the trough room, and on entering, is confronted 
with the view of the troughs shown in the second photograph. There 
are five troughs, running lengthwise of the room, two on one side 
of the central aisle and three on the other, They are standard fourteen. 
