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Table X. — Experiments in transportation of salmon-eggs, from Bncksport, Mc, to Winches- 

 ter, Mass. 



[These oggs were sent in small lots, by express, and received the common treatment of article trans, 

 ported in that way, the battered condition of the boxes often attesting the rough wfiy in which they 

 had been handled! All except the last lot were packed on disks of mosquito-netting, sewed on to brass 

 i-ings, in alternate layers, with wet bog-moss, in tin boxes, and the latter were inclosed in larger tins, 

 the space between, J inch to 1 inch, being tilled with sawdust. In some cases, coarse paper was wrapped 

 in several layers around the whole parcel. The packages left Bucksport on the steamer Katahdin, and 

 generally reached their destination the following day. Being exposed to a severe teniporaturo on sev- 

 eral occasions, while in the delivery -wagon at Winchester, some of the parcels were penetrated bj- frost.] 



50 

 50 

 50 

 50 

 50 

 50 

 50 

 50 

 50 

 50 

 50 

 50 

 50 

 50 

 50 

 50 

 50 

 50 

 50 

 50 

 100 

 100 



100 

 100 

 100 

 100 

 100 

 100 



100 

 100 

 50 

 50 

 50 

 50 

 30 

 50 



50 

 50 



50 

 50 



1,500 



1,500 



500 



500 



500 



50 



50 



50 



50 



50 



Date. 



1872. 

 Dec. 

 Dec. 

 Dec. 

 Dec. 

 Dec. 

 Dec. 

 Dec. 

 Dec. 

 Dec. 

 Dec. 

 Dec. 17 

 Dec. 17 

 Dec. 17 

 Dec. 17 

 Dec. 17 

 Dec. 24 

 Dec. 24 

 Dec. 24 

 Dec. 24 

 Dec. 24 

 Nov. 14 

 Nov. 14 



38 day.s. 

 34 days. 

 30 days. 

 26 days. 

 21 days. 

 42 days. 

 38 days. 

 34 days. 

 30 days. 

 25 days. 

 50 days. 

 46 days. 

 42 davs. 

 38 days. 

 33 days. 

 57 days. 

 53 days. 

 49 days. 

 45 days. 

 40 days. 

 17 days. 

 13 days. 



Nov. 14 9 days. 

 Nov. 14 2 days. 

 Nov. 14 I i hour. 

 Nov. 20 j 23 days. 

 Nov. 20 I 19 days. 

 Nov. 20 I 15 days. 



Nov. 20 j 11 days. 



Nov. 20 



Nov. 21 



Nov. 21 



No^-; 21 



Nov. 21 



Nov. 21 



Nov. 25 



Nov. 25 

 Nov. 25 



Nov. 25 

 Nov. 25 



1873. 

 Jan. 7 



Jan. 

 Jan. 

 Jan. 

 Jan. 

 Jan. 

 Jan. 

 Jan. 

 Jan. 

 Jan. 



6 days. 

 24 days. 

 20 days. 

 16 days. 

 12 days. 



7 days- 

 28 days. 



24 days . 

 20 days. 



16 days. 

 11 days. 



71 days. 

 71 days. 

 67 days. 

 63 days. 

 59 days. 

 71 days. 

 67 days. 

 63 days. 

 59 days. 

 54 days. 



Lot. 



1 



80 



125 



175 



210 



1 



80 



125 



175 



210 



1 



80 



125 



175 



210 



1 



80 



125 



175 



210 



1 



125 

 196 

 210 

 1 

 80 

 125 



175 



210 



I 



80 

 125 

 175 



a'lo 



1 



80 

 126 



175 

 210 



1 

 1 



80 



125 



175 



1 



80 



125 



*175 



210 



State of development. 



Embryo covers yolk 



do 



Embryo covers i of yolk. 

 Embryo not expanded. . . 



Heart beating 



Embryo covers yolk 



do 



Em bryo covers 4-5 of yolk 

 Embryo covers | of yolk. 



Embryo covers yolk 



do ' 



Embryo expanding 



Embryo beginning to ex- 

 pand. 



Embryo covers 4.5 of j'olk 

 Embryo covers i of yolk 

 Embryo just beginning 

 to expand. 



Embryo covers whole 

 yolk. 



Embryo covers ^ yolk. . 



Embryo slightly expand- 

 ed. ' 



Eyes black. 

 do 



Eemarks. 



1 



} Package frozen badly. 



Frozen so that the moss was 

 all stifl". 



J 



Package inclosed in paper, 

 [^ which protected against 

 [ cold, and against the jar 

 of rough handling. 



> Some frost in the box. 



Nearly all died afterwards. 



Packed with mo.ss on wire 

 • trays, and inclosed in saw- 

 dust, 

 j 



Packed in tin.s a.s nsual, in- 

 )■ closed in sawdust and pa- 

 per. 



* The excessive mortality in the eg 

 healthy state. 



;s belonging to lot 175 I attribute in part to their being in an un- 



