Wisconsin State Agricultural Society. 
413 
In the first place we ask the state to make a suitable appropria¬ 
tion of money, to enable the Fish Commissioners to prepare a proper 
site and erect a state hatching-house. These sites are not abundant 
in the state. We must have a fair scope of land near some railway 
center, living water of proper temperature, and a full sufficiency 
for the accommodation of hatching troughs and ponds. To give a 
fair conception of what kind of hatchery we want, we copy the 
following outside description of that in New York: 
“The hatching-house is situate at Caledonia, N. Y. It is built on 
ground leased from the well-known fish-breeder, Mr. A. S. Collins, 
who owns the streams and ponds formerly belonging to Seth Green. 
This site is the finest b} jr far in the United States for such a pur¬ 
pose. An estimated flow of sixty barrels of water per second is 
furnished by springs within the distance of half a mile. The stream 
varies much less than is usual, with such waters in volume and 
temperature; is full of the finest flavored speckled trout, and the 
ground around the hatching-house is especially favorable for con¬ 
structing ponds and for the various purposes of fish-breeding. 
“The hatching-house is so constructed that a fall of three feet of 
water can be used. It is built of hemlock-timber, is fiftj^ feet long 
by twenty feet wide, one and a half stories high, and the commis¬ 
sioners claim is the cheapest hatching-house, and vet, so arranged 
to turn out the greatest number of fish of any in the United 
States.’ 1 
The interior is supplied with troughs, feed-pipes,—in which fil¬ 
ters are inserted before the faucets, which admits the water into the 
troughs—waste-pipes, &c. The work is rough in the main and in¬ 
expensive. The principal cost of such an establishment would at¬ 
tach to the ground. We should not want near the current of water 
above named, but care should be taken to secure an abundance for 
all time and for all purposes of such an institution. A large dis¬ 
cretion should be given to the commissioners in the selection of a 
site, assuming that the best interests of the state would be kept in 
view. 
For the purposes above indicated and to carry on the operations 
of hatching spawn and distributing the fry, for 1875, we ask for an 
appropriation of eight or ten thousand dollars. With this sum we 
feel confident that in a few months we could perfect the work nec¬ 
essary for all hatching purposes. It might be necessary to erect a 
