74 FisJi Cultu lists' Association. 



to this time. After this we can get them a great deal cheaper, 

 probably for seventy-five cents or half a dollar a thousand. I 

 think that for $5,000 we can get 10,000,000 eggs and pack them 

 for shipment. 



There is one feature that may be worth mentioning. We 

 have in our operations this year sent California eggs to New 

 Zealand. It has been considered quite impossible to get the 

 salmon eggs safely across the equator, and get them introduced 

 into New Zealand waters ; but this year we sent five lots of 

 80,000 each, 400,000 eggs, to New Zealand, and every lot, without 

 exception, arrived in capital order. We sent 8,000 to Welling- 

 ton, and we have sent them to many other points. It seems to 

 me that California salmon-eggs must be very hardy, considering 

 what they have to go through. In the first place, we have to 

 pack the eggs on a warm day, because the salmon spawn in 

 warm weather. Then, after being packed, they are taken twenty- 

 two miles over a rough road under a blazing sun. The day I 

 came away the thermometer stood at 104 in the shade and 

 125 in the sun. After they get to the railroad terminus, they 

 are taken three hundred miles to San Francisco, and there they 

 stay two nights and a day, and then are carried to the steamer, 

 and then are carried by the steamer seventy-six miles, most of 

 which is through the tropics and across the equator, and at the 

 end of that distance are taken out ; and I think it is perfectly 

 surprising that the eggs of any fish whatever can be carried so 

 far under such unfavorable circumstances and come out alive. 

 In this instance they have succeeded well. 



There is one more feature in this year's operations, and that 

 is shipping the eggs across the continent in a refrigerator car. 

 They have before been sent by express, and although they have 

 come in pretty good order, it has been very expensive. This 

 year the eggs were all put in one car, the surplus room in which 



