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many and Switzerland. On Monday, January 5, Mr. Mather sent 10,000 
eggs to General R. U. Sherman, of the New York State commission, and 
the remainder to the Northville station. None were retained at the 
Long Island hatchery, because they had been supposed to be a trout 
requiring the deep waters of lakes, a belief which was afterward found 
to be .incorrect, as it was learned that the fish had been introduced into 
the streams of England. Mr. Clark telegraphed their safe arrival at 
Northville on January 7, and made the following distribution : 
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Jan. 29. To E. B. Hodge, Plymouth, N. H., for Sunapee Lake 5,000 
Feb. 3. To A. W. Aldrich, Anamosa, Iowa 20,000 
Feb. 3. To R. O. Sweeny, Saint Paul, Minn 20,000 
Feb. 4. To Charles G. Atkins, fpr lakes in Maine 10, 000 
The remainder were retained by Mr. Clark to be hatched at North- 
ville. Between April 10 and April 23 he distributed them as follows: 
To Michigan fish commission 10,000 
To L. S. Hill, Grand Rapids, Mich 5, 000 
To G. H. Dalrymple, Grand Rapids, Mich 1,500 
To Crooked Lake, Northern Michigan 20,000 
Retained to he reared at the hatchery 7, 000 
The 10,000 eggs assigned to General R. U. Sherman were forwarded 
to the Bisbv Club hatchery, situated at the first Bisby Lake in the 
Adirondacks, town of Wilmurt, Herkimer County, New York. General 
Sherman is president of the Bisby Club. Under date of January 24, 
1885, Mr. Henry Studor, the keeper of the Bisby Club House, wrote : 
u The Loch Leven trout eggs which came from Scotland are a splendid 
lot. I do not think that I have picked out fifty bad ones. In the course 
of ten days they will begin to hatch. The young fish can be plainly 
seen in the shell.” General Sherman writes that the eggs hatched suc- 
cessfully, producing vigorous fry, which were planted in the Second 
Sylvan Pond, a sheet of 30 acres, with pure spring water and well sup- 
plied with insect and minute crustacean food. It also contains brook 
trout and dace, but no other fish. 
The eggs sent to Mr. E. B. Hodge arrived in good condition, hatched 
well (loss only 118), and about 3,400 fry were planted June 1 in Sunapee 
Lake, Sullivan County, New Hampshire. Concerning them he wrote, 
March 18, 1887 : 
u This is one of our largest lakes and has an elevation of about 1,200 
feet above sea level. It is a natural trout lake. It is 9 miles in length 
and from J to 3 miles wide. I do not know of their having been seen 
since, and from so small a plant in a lake of this size it is hardly time 
to expect their appearance. We shall make a plant this year in this 
lake of 20,000 Loch Leven trout fry.” 
The 20,000 eggs sent to the Anamosa hatchery arrived in splendid 
order, only four being dead. They hatched well, and on April 3 the fry 
were taken to Spirit Lake, Iowa, to be put into West Okoboji Lake, one 
