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female fish, and the fluid put upon them, the sooner you lay them 

 down in that state upon the trays and do not disturb them 

 afterwards the better it is for the eggs. That is the system I 

 have pursued, and I think if you will adopt it you will find it 

 superior to anything yet practiced. I have found it so. In 

 laying down some four or five million eggs this year that is the 

 system I have practiced ; and I have sent word to the various 

 establishments over which I have control, telling them to do 

 the same thing. Some did not do that way, some did. Those 

 who carried out the plan I have now laid down have succeeded 

 better than those who did not. With regard to my own 

 establishment, I have carried that out to the very letter, and out 

 of a million and a half or a million and three-fourths eggs I 

 don't think that I have lost one per cent, up to the present time. 

 That is my success. I think it is the duty of those engaged in 

 fish-breeding to give as much knowledge as they possibly can 

 to their fellow fish-breeders upon this important question, and 

 1 think, under the circumstances, that you will find that the 

 system that I have practiced this year will be very satisfactory 

 and productive of a great deal of good in the science of fish 

 culture. 



.Mr. Blackford : Mr. Mowat stated that he had kept the milt 

 of the male salmon several days and then used it successfullv. 

 I don't recollect the number of days in detail. Perhaps that 

 might interest the gentlemen here present. 



Mr. Wilmot : Several experiments of that kind have been 

 tried by my assistants in the lower Provinces. In some cases 

 the milt has been carried a long distance — in one case I think 

 two or three hundred miles in small vials. The vials were put 

 in cold water and conveyed to the hatching-house where they 

 had an abundance of female fish but no males. I have not yet 

 heard the result ; it has not been reported to me, and I fancy from 



