Report of the Commissioner for the year ending June 30, 1899 . , and FortWoith and Rio Grande—declined to give the Commission any morefree transportation, as this will increase the cost of distribution verygreatly. It may be of interest to know that the employees of the sta-tion traveled 18,857 miles in making the spring distribution, 9,000 ofwhich were free. The amount expended in traveling was $ Of the fish distributed 37,550 of the black bass were planted in thefollowing streams: Trinity River, 8,000; Brazos River, 7,150; ColoradoRiver, 9,300; Guadalupe River, 5,000; Nueces River, 2,
Report of the Commissioner for the year ending June 30, 1899 . , and FortWoith and Rio Grande—declined to give the Commission any morefree transportation, as this will increase the cost of distribution verygreatly. It may be of interest to know that the employees of the sta-tion traveled 18,857 miles in making the spring distribution, 9,000 ofwhich were free. The amount expended in traveling was $ Of the fish distributed 37,550 of the black bass were planted in thefollowing streams: Trinity River, 8,000; Brazos River, 7,150; ColoradoRiver, 9,300; Guadalupe River, 5,000; Nueces River, 2,500; Frio River,2,000; Medina River, 1,400; San Saba River, 1,000; San Antonio River(above city), 500; Pecan Creek, 700. As it was impossible to obtain any rock bass in Texas, 10 adultswere transferred from the Neosho station in December and placed in apond 50 by 100 feet. At first the clear water appeared to affect theireyes, but they recovered and commenced nesting on the 23d of the close of the year there, appeared to be quite a number of young. Rake for drawing aquatic plants and moss to pond banks. fish about 1 h, inches long in the pond. At the same time these fish weretransferred from Neosho, 12 calico bass were received and placed in apond of the same size; these showed signs of nesting during thelatter part of March and quite a number of small ones were observedon April 19. Profiting by the experience of the past year, the adult crappie wereplaced in a pond with carp so. that the water would be kept commenced nesting late in March and at the close of the year anumber of fish about 2 inches long were observed. For breeding pur-poses it is not deemed advisable to place more than 50 of these fish toa half-acre pond. An effort was made to propagate bream, and early in the winter 30were placed in a small pond. They commenced spawning in April andhad not finished at the close of the year. Blind salamander and shrimp continued to come up in the waterfrom
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