[9] PROPAGATION OF THE SCHOODIC SALMON. 641 
January 10.—To-day began packing. Packed lot 1 (except 2,000 kept 
for hatching), allof 2 and 3, and 64,500 out of lot 4. Sent away 50,000 
to Grand Falls, N. B. 
So far as I am able to see, these eggs are in prime order. The fish 
are not very large—apparently not very near hatching (not so near as 
I expected to find them, but perhaps as near as I ought to expect; last 
year the record showed lot 1 was half hatched February 23, and all out 
March 1). The veins show well, and those at lower end of trough 
appear as good as any. I have seen no prematurely hatched fish; 
scarcely any defective ones. All in this house are ready to ship; not 
much difference in their stages of development, to be sure; only six days 
difference in their ages. 
The picking of eggs has been every three days in the old house and - 
every six days in the stream house. 
The eggs in the stream house are very backward. The trunk of the 
fish can be discerned by close examination, but that is all; not near col- 
oring yet. 
January 11.—The packing proceeded to-day until near 2 p. m., when 
we had three cases ready, all of which went to H. J. Fenton, Windsor, 
Conn. The first was a 50-thousand case packed with dry moss; the 
second and third were 80-thousand cases and packed with dry leaves. 
We have in all cases 3 inches space around the inside boxes. 
January 13.—Munson and Macartney worked yesterday all day at 
“turning” the eggs in the old house and.turned 174 trays. To-day they 
and Forbes worked all day at picking them (and a few others) over; 
=400,000 turned by two days’ work and picked by three days’ work; and 
only one of these men is an adept. 
The results of picking pretty satisfactory. For instance, lot 7, esti- 
mated originally at 276,000, picked to-day 12,700 = 4.6 per cent., but 
some lots much worse. 
On 12th in packing I observed just two collapsed eggs in lot 4; no 
others. 
On 11th we shut off water from faucet 1 in old house and shut off 
most from faucet 2, which feeds now only the remnant of lots 1 and 5 
and part of lot 6, not over 20,000 in all. 
We measured the volume of water and found 8.103 gallons per min- 
ute, which showed a falling of one-eighth, or 124 per cent., since 7th. 
The weather is mild to-day and cloudy, with indications of speedy 
rain. 
At stream hatching-house Blodgett finds 109 gallons per minute. This 
is the highest head, the head trough being nearly full. When saw-mill 
is running the amount of water is less. This all runs through without 
seriously disturbing the eggs. 
January 18.—The packing of spawn is waiting until I receive Pro- 
fessor Baird’s schedule, which I expect to-morrow. All the eggs in the 
old house have been picked and are all ready. None have been carried 
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