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BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
All tlie salmon eggs forwarded from this station were sent by express (the express 
messengers being instructed to keep the crates j)leutifully re iced in transit), until 
187G, Avben an ice car was used for transporting the eggs from Bedding to Chicago, 
whence they were distributed to their eastern destinations. The ice car, which to start 
with was only a common box-freight car, was sent by the railroad company to Redding, 
the nearest i-ailway point from Baird, A\’ith a ton or so of ice. The crates of salmon 
eggs in the meantime were forwarded by wagon from Baird. They were then packed 
into the car and the car sent down to Sacramento and filled up with ice; on the same 
day it left for Chicago on the regular passenger train of the Central Pacific. 
The method of packing with moss, as above described, has always been employed 
at this station for shipping eggs oAmr long distances, but for short distances the Annin 
packing box is used. This box is too Avell known to need description. 1 will only say 
that in my experience it has always auswei’ed its purpose admirably. We have 
frequently even found a few eggs alive in the return boxes, that had been overlooked 
in unpacking and which had remained in the box two or three weeks. 
The following excellent tabulated statement,^ j)repared by Mr. Smiley, may not 
be out of place here. 
Table slioiving the success in transporting and hatching 31,198^000 salmon eggs. 
State to wliicli consigned. 
Number of 
eggs sent 
from McCloud 
River. 
Received at 
State 
hatcheries. 
Loss in hatching 
and transport- 
ing to waters. 
Young actually 
introduced. 
Number 
lost. 
Per 
cent. 
Number. 
Per 
cent. 
Colorado 
565, 000 
565, 000 
92, 100 
16 
472, POO 
84 
Connecticut 
1,410, 000 
1,390,000 
191,714 
13 
1,198, 286 
87 
Illinois 
1, 030, 000 
930, 000 
362, 300 
39 
567, 700 
01 
Iowa 
1, 050, 000 
1,100,000 
86, 800 
8 
1, 013, 200 
92 
Kansas 
400, 000 
400, 000 
20, GOO 
5 
380, 000 
95 
Kentuckv 
355, 000 
350, 000 
232, 275 
GO 
117, 725 
34 
Maine 
215, COO 
165, 000 
77, 300 
47 
87. 700 
53 
Marvlaud 
4, 645, 000 
4, 440, 000 
1, 175, 601 
29 
3, 264, 399 
71 
Massacliu.eetts 
740, 000 
728, 000 
259, 000 
36 
469. 000 
64 
Michigan 
3, 908, 000 
3, 868, 000 
618, 979 
16 
3, 249, UOO 
84 
Minnesota 
2, 825, 000 
2, 627, 500 
1,751,750 
64 
875, 750 
36 
Missouri 
410, 000 
400, 000 
64. UOO 
10 
336, 000 
84 
Nebraska 
710, 000 
600, 000 
110, 000 
18 
490, 000 
82 
Nevada 
250, 000 
250, 000 
50, 000 
20 
200, 000 
80 
New Hampsliire 
555, 000 
467, 000 
37, 960 
8 
429, 540 
92 
New Jersey 
2, 480, 000 
2, 430, 000 
330, 371 
14 
2, 099, 029 
84 
New York 
1, 135. 000 
980, 000 
144, 790 
15 
835, 210 
85 
North Cai’olina 
1,100,000 
1, 117, 500 
369, 500 
33 
748, 000 
67 
Ohio 
500, 000 
500, OOil 
127, 500 
26 
372, 500 
74 
Pennsylvania 
2, 440, 000 
2. 385, 000 
483, 500 
20 
1, 901, 500 
80 
Rhode Island 
340, 000 
220, 000 
40, 000 
18 
180, 000 
82 
South Carolina 
250, 000 
333, 000 
121, 000 
30 
212, 000 
64 
Tennessee 
100, 000 
(a) 
(a) 
(«) 
(a) 
(a) 
Utah 
600, 000 
625, 000 
114, 500 
18 
510, 500 
82 
Virginia 
1, 270, 000 
1, 285, 000 
358, 500 
28 
926, 500 
72 
West Virginia 
810, 000 
785, 000 
47, 625 
6 
737, 375 
94 
Wisconsin 
1, 100, 000 
1, 130, 000 
300, 400 
27 
829, 000 
73 
Total 
31, 193, 000 
30, 071, 000 
7, 567, 465 
25 
22. 504, 035 
75 
a No report received. 
It will be seen by the above table that the gratifying average of 75 per cent of 
all the 30,000,000 eggs distributed from Baird station in the ten years from 1872 to 
1881, inclusive, were actually hatched out, and the fish deposited in the Avaters of the 
Atlantic States. 
Uuited States Fish Commissioner’s Eeport, 1881, page 837. 
