642 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. [10] 
out from the stream yet. The eggs in the stream house very backward. 
One day last week a man dropped one tray, and out of it Mr. Munson 
has since picked 1,800, which shows that they are very tender. 
January 19.—Having the unimpregnated eggs picked out ahead as 
far as lot 12 (and all but 14 stack of that), Munson, Forbes, and Macart- 
ney began packing this morning for shipment. During the day they 
put 195,000 into the packing-boxes, and put 130,000 of these in the cases. 
I got Professor Baird’s schedule to-day and immediately began to 
fill it. 
January 20.—Yesterday evening I took a deep (34-inch) packing- 
box and filled it with damp moss and put it out in the wood-shed of the 
old hatching-house on an empty three-quarter-inch case, covered it with 
an empty packing-box, and left it from 8 p. m. till 8 a. m. to-day. 
Meanwhile the temperature at dwelling-house was +7° all night, and 
at shed on the top of this box the thermometer stood at'9° at 8 a. m. 
On opening, I found that the moss was frozen into a solid mass on top 
and sides and a little on bottom; by careful measurement, .85 inch on 
sides, 1.2 inch on ends, 1.6 inch diagonally at corners, one-quarter inch 
on bottom, and five-eighth inch on top. The moss was from under 
the bench, the same that we are using constantly in packing eggs; was 
fully as damp as average; received no extra water; was pressed in 
hard, much harder than we press with eggs. Had a three-fourths-inch 
board under it and a one-fourth over it (packing-box bottom). The 
sides were three-eighths inch thick, ends a little over one-fourth, bottom 
one-fourth; temperature of moss originally about 35°. 
Up to to-day we have used for outside packing only leaves, except 
in the case sent to Mr. W. H. Barber, Grand Falls, N. B. But to-day 
we used moss only and packed eight small cases. 
To-day I tried the temperature of moss under the table and found it 
35°, Also temperature of heap of dry moss up aloft, and found it 37°. 
The moss was all gathered on a bog on the south side of Princeton road, 
about 13 miles out. The dry was dried by spreading out on the open 
ground near our dwelling-house, after hauling green from the bog. 
The bog near our hatching-house used to furnish our moss, but we 
pulled it all over, and the new growth is still too short for use. 
I am going to try comparative efficacy of leaves and moss for outside 
packing. Would like also to try cat-tail-flag down, if I could find 
enough of it. 
In packing the eggs sent to-day we put snow on moss under each layer 
of spawn—light, dry snow, grated or scattered on. We got on from 1 
pint to 1 quart in each deep box (10,000 eggs). Besides this the eggs 
were rinsed off, before packing, in the coldest water at our command 
(from brook end of bulkhead, temperature 35°). 
January 24.—Packing again to-day. We find now and then a bursted 
shell, but few. 
Last Saturday we packed up, out of lot 7, one deep and one shallow 
