The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-10-11
Enlarged Plant One, of the
BesttOf its Kind I'M
New England
SUPPLY OF WATER
NEVER FAILING

greeS No Matter How Severe the
weather-over Million Eggs Will Be
Matched During Coming Season.
Extension work Us, in progress at the
state hatchery at Bennington to put the
plant in shape for the next season, which
will begin early in the winter. Now that
the availability of the. water for hatch
cry purposes has been proved beyond the
shadow of a doubt, Commissioner Linus
Leavens is gradually improving the
property along permanent lines. One of
the improvements is the construction of
a solid foundation under the ice house.
Nearly % tons of ice were used during
the recent season in the transportation
of lingering and fry. Such a quantity
of ice made necessary proper building
and for this reason the house has been
raised and stone wall has already been
lpartly built.
During the two years that the hatch
cry has been in operation the lingering
and advanced fry have been raised in
two long bitches with boarded bottoms
and sides. These are now being replaced
with permanent raceways of concrete.
The two new raceways will be each l20
feet long and eight feet wide with a
longitudinal section in the middle, thus
actually making four long ponds 100
feet long and four feet wide The new
raceways will largely increase the rear
ing capacity of the hatchery and will
enable County Warden S b. Hawks to
raise many more lingering fish. The
hatchery building as at present con-
structed has a capacity that viii meet
the needs of the department for some
yeaRs to come.
1t has been demonstrated during the
two seasons that the hatchery has been
operated that the department has in
Remington one of the best water supplies
for trout rearing purposes in the east
ern states There is a constant flow OF
: spring water at the rate of 259 gallons a
minute, an amount far in excess of the
quantity that isr available at many OF
the large commercial hatcheries. The
temperature of the water, too, is all that
could be desired The record kept last
winter shows that the spring water was
} at no time colder than 40 degrees. usually
| recording between 43 and -. On days
| when the mercury touched p below out
e side, the hatchery building interior, with
no artificial heat was colder than - de
/ grees above, difference OF 30 degree,
: due to the flow of the warm spring
r water through the building.
!. Some over half a million fry. advanced
: fry and lingering trout were shipped
i from the hatchery by County Wardel
t Hawks during the season recently closed
2 The daily records showed that there wa
: an egg hatch of better than "a per cent
t There was some loss in rearing, believed
t to be due largely to the use of brood fisl
eggs obtained from the commercial
n hatcheries. There was comparativel,
h small loss among fish Matched from will
/. trout eggs. The lake trout made a re
5 markable showing From between 5000
d and 10000 lake trout eggs over 1900
were successfully Matched. raised an
t shipped. 1t is probable that but fey
d lake trout will be raised st the hatcher
> in the future. Outside of Lake Dunmor
there are no bodies of water in the south
ern half of the state suitable for tn
/, Takers The stock fish of this variet
70 will hereafter be raised at the Canaa
J., hatchery, which is located in the lax
Y territory.
:, Plans for the coming season conten
70 plate the Matching of about one and one
20 half million eggs, Of which a third wi
N be raised to the lingering stage. TIL
number, in the opinion of the commits
, ; sioner, will about meet the requirement
If of the state. During the past season
n. considerable number of lingering an
10 fry were sold to the owners of privat
ID ponds and the money received was MOI
ID than enough to pay the actual cost of IL
W eggs. There is no intention however,
making the hatchery commercial indu
no try The purchasers of stock fish WEI
-, all residents of Vermont and sportsme
L interested in the progress and welfare
+; the department and the sales were mac
ba as an accommodation
al At present there are about 200 broe
"a trout lingering left in one of the o
l, wood lined raeeways The fish are b
=, tween three and four inches long.
NJ another section of the raceways are
u, number of trout that have been eaug
- in the nearby streams by the warden al
his assistants. They range in size fro
of fish that have just passed the leg
- length of six inches to one specimen tn
- would weigh one and one quarter pound
= 1t will require at least another seas,
- to put the hatchery property in the co
:. dition that is desired by the commissio
= er. After the permanent raceways ha
ne been constructed it will be possible
. build the exhibition pond, which is
feature of every hatchery. and to beg
grading and improving the grounds
-asUY LIBtRTY BoND gas-
l,h UNIT ALMOST WIPED OUT.