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improvement. At the hatchery the buildings have been put in good 
condition, and a substantial coal wharf has been built. 
The work at the Green Lake (Maine) station has in the past been 
seriously interfered with by a lack of convenient means of communi- 
cation. The station has heretofore been reached only by expensive, 
unreliable, and generally unsatisfactory boat service. To obviate this 
difficulty, the construction of a road from the hatchery to the public 
highway was undertaken and is now well advanced to completion. 
Owing to an insufficient water supply at the St. Johnsbury (Ver- 
mont) station, trout culture at that place has been restricted. Prop- 
erty at Holden, Vt., has been acquired for the purpose of establishing 
a trout hatchery to be operated as an auxiliary of the St. Johnsbury 
station. The tract comprises about 24 acres and appears to have all 
the requisite conditions. 
At the Erwin (Tennessee) station 14.8 acres of land have been pur- 
chased in order to straighten the boundary line and eliminate certain 
objectionable features which impaired the usefulness of the station; 
and at the Cold Springs (Georgia) station 60,000 square feet of ad- 
joining land, containing a dwelling, have been purchased to meet the 
growing needs of the hatchery. 
The water supply at the Neosho (Missouri) station has been falling 
off for a number of years, and the operations have been curtailed in 
consequence. To rectify this a new source of supply was acquired, 
and a pipe line 12 inches in diameter and 11,800 feet long has been 
laid to connect it with the station. It is believed that a marked in- 
crease in the efficiency of the station will ensue. 
The basement of the hatchery at Duluth, Minn., has been enlarged, 
raised, and equipped with new troughs, so that the capacity of the 
plant is nearly doubled. The flume and intake crib have been 
reconstructed and improved. 
The pond system at the Mammoth Spring (Arkansas) station has 
been extensively enlarged and improved. At the Bozeman (Mon- 
tana), Leadville (Colorado), Manchester (Iowa), White Sulphur 
Springs (West Virginia), and Wytheville (Virginia) hatcheries only 
minor expenditures were made from special appropriations, chiefly 
for repairs to buildings and improvements to water-supply systems. 
It was expected that the salmon hatchery at Afognak, Alaska, 
would be completed during the year, but owing to the rigors of the 
climate, the difficulties in the way of transporting supplies and ma- 
terials, and the lack of efficient help, the construction stage is not yet 
passed, although the hatching of fish has begun. Gratifying progress 
has been made in building, racks have been put in, a heating plant 
has been installed, and the work of finishing the hatchery, residence, 
mess house, quarters, tramway, roads, etc., is proceeding as expedi- 
tiously as possible. 
