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Identifier: annualreport101112190newy (find matches)
Title: Annual report
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: New York (State). Forest, Fish and Game Commission
Subjects: Forests and forestry Fisheries Game and game-birds
Publisher: (Albany, N.Y. : The Commission)
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ent in food supply. At many trout stations a mush made of mill middlings mixed with liverhas been found very acceptable for rainbow trout. Another very usefulcombination is known as Lanes food. It is prepared from the followingrecipe of the late George F. Lane, of Silver Lake, Mass.: Animal meal, 2quarts; salt, 1^ pounds; corn meal, 8 quarts; mill middlings, 16 quarts;water brought to the boiling point, 24 quarts. These ingredients arethoroughly mixed and cooked in a large iron boiler and the compound isafterwards forced through a perforated cylinder in the shape of round,vermicelli-like strings, which are allowed to dry before feeding time. Thestrings are broken up into lengths of two and one-half to three inches andthey are thrown to the trout in the ponds. Haddock Roe. This is to be obtained from salt fish dealers in Boston and Gloucester,Mass. Supplies were purchased from the John R. Neal Co., T wharf, Boston,for several stations, and answered a very useful purpose as long as they
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CO D zzJ CO D z kId J0 111< (/) D< ao oz< JId yooo Q < I FOREST. FISH AND GAME COMMISSIONER. 211 could be kept sweet. The roe is not to be obtained during warm weather.The eggs are very small and, therefore, suitable in size for small fry, andthey could be crushed into a sort of paste which floats readily on the surfaceof the water and proves attractive to the young fish. This has also beenemployed very effectively at the hatchery of the South Side SportsmensClub, near Oakdale. L. I. It forms a cheap and nutritious food for youngfish. Maskalonge. The egg-taking season on Chautauqua lake began April 18, 1906, andon April 30th Foreman Brown reported that the fish were about donespawning below Bemus Point, but were nicely started up the lake. A snowstorm in late April delayed the spawning. On Ma)- 7th Mr. Brown reported7.000,000 eggs in the hatchery. On May 16th one jar of eggs commenced

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