Identifier: annualreportof4189718newy (find matches)
Title: Annual report of the Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forests of the State of New York
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: New York (State). Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forests
Subjects: Forests and forestry Fisheries Game and game-birds
Publisher: (Albany, N.Y. : The Commission)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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n taken from a mackerel of one 296 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF FISHERIES, GAME AND FORESTS. and one quarter pounds, and the largest fish may yield a million eggs. The period ofincubation with water temperature of fifty-eight degrees is five days. Seventy-fiveper cent, of some eggs have produced fry, but less than one per cent, of most of theeggs hatch, and they are taken from commercial fish, and are not received in goodorder.—From Manual of Fish Culture. Tl)e Wea^fisi). The weakfish is a prominent food fish commercially, as well as hook-and-line fish.Its average size is under five pounds, but it grows to thirty pounds. It has beenhatched artificially by the United States Fish Commission, the eggs being very small,and they hatch in two days with the water at sixty degrees. The sea trout is alsoa weakfish, called spotted squeteague, and is smaller than the fish figured in the illus-tration, the maximum weight being about ten pounds. A. N. CHENEY, State Fish Culturist. -%W!ffIff/..
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H O 01 LU 0_ < z Q < LJJ o q: o: &: ijj < z DQ < q: - Report of ff)e 3aperintendent of3tate Forests. To tl)e Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forests: GENTLEMEN :—The forestry work of this Department has been carried on duringthe past year with satisfactory results. Forest fires have been of rare occurrence—the damage from this source being merely nominal as compared with the destructionand devastation wrought in former years. The burnings this season were few innumber and small in area. It is a matter of congratulation that none occurred on theForest Preserve. With one exception, these fires started near the outskirts of themain forest, or along the highways where, for the most part, they originated in brushfires started by farmers for clearing land, from which the flames, driven by wind orthrough lack of proper watching, escaped intothe adjoining forest. The exceptionreferred to was a fire that occurred in the interior of the wilderne

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