134 DOMESTICATED TROUT. 



They have been sent to England and California with- 

 out loss, and salmon eggs shipped from England have 

 reached Australia alive. I have sent eggs to Kansas 

 and Europe safely, and one hundred and seventy thou- 

 sand salmon eggs from the writer's Salmon-Breeding 

 Establishment on the Mirimichi came eight miles by 

 private conveyance, one hundred miles by stage, one 

 hundred miles by rail, two hundred miles by steamer, 

 across the city of Boston by wagon, and one hundred 

 and twenty more miles by rail before reaching their 

 destination, where they were found, on opening, to be 

 in good condition. Indeed, when trout and salmon 

 eggs are carefully packed, they are about as safe in 

 the moss which encloses them as they are in the 

 hatching boxes, and the only risk to which they are 

 exposed in transportation is rough handling ; and I 

 have observed that they will stand a good deal of 

 that. A few, say a dozen in a thousand, will perhaps 

 die on the way ; but excepting these, they will, as a 

 rule, arrive at their destination unhurt. Injury to 

 any greater extent is the exception. 



On the tag or label which accompanies them should 

 always be distinctly written, — 



That they are fish eggs ; 



That they should be handled carefully ; 



That they should be kept in a cool place ; 



That concussion will kill them ; 



That they must not be allowed to freeze. 



Packing the eggs. It is a sort of paradoxical fact 

 that fish eggs do not require much water for hatching, 

 but, relatively, plenty of air. Consequently, when 



