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furnished the means for erecting and equipping the present 

 house. It is located at the corner of ChamiDlain Street and 

 Campau Avenue, in a nice residence neighborhood, and 

 has often been mistaken for a plain church. Its dimen- 

 sions are 40 x 80 feet, with a wing 38 x 55 feet. The main 

 building is a single room full length and width, excei)ting 

 a small office and bedroom partitioned off from one corner. 

 The floor is of solid concrete. The water supply is from 

 the city water-supply pipes in the adjoining streets, the 

 connections being equal to five one-inch pipes. 



The equipment was 312 glass jars of larger size than used 

 in the old house, as they showed, by actual measurement 

 and count for three seasons, an average of 156,000 to the 

 jar, making a total for the house of 48,672,000 white-fish 

 eggs. 



This house was very carefully constructed with a view to 

 maintaining an equable temperature. Outside of the stud- 

 ding it is sheathed with common boards, over which very 

 heavy building-paper is placed, and the clapboards outside 

 of that. 



The space above the ceiling being quite large, is opened 

 at both ends and covered with sloping boards ; three aper- 

 tures were left from this space connecting with the main 

 room of the house, which are controlled by hatches. 



The windows are all rather high, and on the inside are 

 supplied with wooden slat-shades, which allow of regu- 

 lating the light as desired. It is generally understood that 

 no more light should be admitted than is necessary for the 

 proper handling of the eggs. 



Over the wing are large storage-rooms for the cans and 

 other apparatus necessary about such an establishment. 



The jars stand on frames about twelve feet high, placed 

 the long way of the house, each frame carrying on its out- 

 sides rows of the jars one above the other. Within the 

 frame are alternate feed-troughs for water supply to the 

 jars and the wasteways into which the water flows from the 



