The water in Lake Papakeechie is eight feet higher than that in Lake Wawasee, a sufficient head for our purpose. And below the principal Papakeechie dam was a tract of low land through which the drainage of the Papakeechie basin formerly flowed. This land was secured from Mr. Sudlow, and on it two large ponds were constructed last spring, in time that we were able to use them this year as brooderies for young bass picked up after being hatched in the lakes, with a fair measure of success. By next spring we shall be able to stock these ponds with parent bass for hatching purposes, and next year we hope to be able to construct additional ponds.

Another advantage here is that flowing wells may be created. easily by driving pipes twenty to thirty feet through underlying clay, the water from which will rise much higher than the surface of Lake Papakeechie.

AT TRI-LAKES.

North of Columbia City, in Whitley County, three lakes, Shriner, Round and Cedar, lie close together, and the summer hotel and cottages there compose a village known as Tri-Lakes. Shriner Lake, of somewhat less than two hundred acres, lies six feet above its neighbor, Round Lake, into which its waters flow. Some twelve acres of low, level land lying between these two lakes was purchased, and on this four ponds have been constructed. One of these was sufficiently completed that, like those at Wawasec, it was used as a broodery this year. Here too, next year, parent breeding stock will be secured and the hatching and rearing of bass will be in competent hands.

We have grounds sufficient at Tri-Lakes on which to construct numerous other ponds and to build a large hatchery for the rearing of bass.

AT BROOKVILLE.

A little below the town of Brookville, down the valley of the Whitewater River, but well up the side of the valley and high above the river, a portion of the bed of the old Cincinnati and Hagerstown canal was leased for twenty years, and in this a series

of ponds has been been constructed. One of them was ready to hand, it having been used as a private fish pond for many years. It was drained and cleaned out last spring and in it were placed some thirty odd small-mouthed black bass. Thirteen nests resulted. Chara moss was gathered and planted in the pond, the water of which seemed to abound in minute crustacea. And from it eighty thousand fingerling bass were planted in the Whitewater River from below Brookville up to Connersville.

The water that fed the pond used this year came from springs along the high hill that forms the side of the valley, located across the highway from the old canal. Further around the hill is a small, spring-fed, never-failing branch, that has now been dammed, and its waters are piped to the ponds, so that an abundant and constant supply for the additional ponds is assured.

In these hatcheries, for the present, or until we shall have made further progress with them, we shall hatch only basslarge-mouthed for the lakes, and small-mouthed for the rivers. At Wawasee, on account of the flowing wells there suitable arrangements can easily and cheaply be made for hatching wall-eyed pike, and that will shortly be done. Whether we shall ever construct a hatchery for trout will depend on tests made of the temperatures of the waters in our streams in hottest weather, to make sure whether these temperatures get too high for them. I have been assured by many experienced men, who have spent many years rearing and planting trout, that the rainbow trout will do well in all our Indiana streams, and even in our lakes. I have met at least one high authority who expressed some doubt about it. Tests of the streams during the hottest seasons will easily prove the matter.

In addition to the three State hatcheries now growing, another should be begun next year, in the south, and preferably the southwestern part of the State, for the supplying of the streams with bass, but a location for it has not yet been decided on.