644 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. [12] 
next morning it was +2°. So I should say that the average tempera- 
ture for the whole 36 hours was about 103° F., or, that being 214° be- 
low freezing, I may call it (214 by 36=) 774 degrees of frost. I think 
I can say that these packages would protect eggs against 1,000 degrees 
of frost. I am surprised that there should be no showing in favor of 
dry moss over leaves, and also that sawdust should have done so well 
compared with them. One of these boxes I had packed in p. m. in same 
manner with dry moss, and put out in same place at 4.45 p. m. 
January 25.—This p. m., at 2.15, I took in and opened the box put out 
at 4.45 p. m. yesterday. I find that the inside moss is frozen on top 
about one-eighth of an inch. Without examining further, the boxes 
were repacked and put out again. This had been out for 213 hours. 
Temperature at 7 this morning was—2°; same at 10 a. m.—say an aver- 
age of about 0 for 214 hours. Eggs would not have been reached by the 
frost had the box contained them. Quite a number of the shrunken 
eggs picked out of lot 7 have been hatched—weak fish. Lot 1 has not 
yet begun to hatch. | 
January 26.—This p. m. Munson carried out from stream to old hatch- 
ing house eight deep stacks of eggs, making sixteen common stacks, or 
about 320,000 eggs. They are all out of lot13. They have just reached 
the stage of sensitiveness; no color in the eyes yet. We handled them 
very carefully. They were hauled out on the “ toboggin.” 
January 27.—This morning measured water at the old house. It is all 
flowing in the fourth and fifth faucets, only those troughs being now 
occupied by eggs. 
I find of this the north aqueduct furnishes 1.67 gallons per minute. 
Temperature of bulkhead 40°; that is from main spring. Temperature 
of north aqueduct, 374°. 
Last Monday, 24th, we packed a box with wet moss inside, dry moss 
outside, and put it out at 4.45 p.m.; examined it next afternoon on the 
top (see that day’s notes) and found frost had penetrated about an eighth 
of an inch, or a little less. It was then put out again and left. To-day 
I take it in at 9 a.m., and open and examine it allthrough. I find frost 
has penetrated on top about one-half inch, and on bottom about three- 
eighths of an inch; outsides about three-eighths of an inch; in corners 
14 to 2 inches. Had there been eggs in this box the top layer of upper 
box and bottom of lower box would probably have been frozen, and the 
corners of other boxes a little, enough to make three layers in all, or a 
loss of 7,500 out of 35,000 eggs. The temperature meanwhile has been: 
Monday, 7 a.m., +2°; Tuesday, 7a. m. —2; Wednesday, 7 a. m., +124; 
Thursday, 7 a.m., —1; and the days have been cold throughout. 
January 30.—On the 24th I packed up in two shallow packing-boxes 
(5,000 each) two selections of eggs from lot 9—5,000 from lower stack 
of trough No. 8, and 5,000 from upper stack of trough No. 9. They were 
packed as for shipment, and placed on the shelf on the back (west) side 
of the old hatching house. To-day we unpacked them and put them 
