Sixth Annual Meeting. 



place, and when it is there it is nourished and fed and grows, 

 and that is the animal. The same with this. 



Mr. Edmunds : In one sense you do not claim that as really 

 accidental, and in another sense it may miss. 



Mr. Green : Twenty-five per cent, used to be allowed for 

 impregnation of eggs. The reason was that there was so much 

 water in it that the animalcules were not thick enough. They 

 were not thick enough in it to find a hole in the egg. When we 

 came to thicken it up, as I did four or five years ago — and I 

 didn't tell Mr. Stone of it either for four or five years after- 

 wards — my eggs impregnated then. 



Mr. Wilmot : Friend Green says there is no advantage in 

 this process. I have forgotten the great advantage that there is 

 in this speedy mode of laying down the egg after it receives the 

 impregnating fluid. In my establishment we will manipulate 

 one hundred salmon at one time, take a hundred salmon out of 

 the water as rapidly as we can and manipulate them. If the old 

 system was pursued we would require perhaps fifty tin pans or 

 vessels to lay these eggs in for thirty minutes. We would have 

 to have the whole building strung with a lot of tin pans with 

 these eggs to carry out your system of twenty or thirty minutes ; 

 whereas, in this system we gain a great deal because we only 

 use one or two pans, and as soon as one is full we dip them out 

 and put them on the breeding-troughs immediatelv- 



Mr. Green : Your tray is standing in the water when you 

 put them on ? 



Mr. Wilmot : No, it is not. 



Mr. Green : That is not my experience. We have a trough 

 with an inch of water in it. I am speaking of our hatching- 

 house. We take the spawn, and as soon as we have taken what 

 we want in one pan we set that in the trough in the water. It 

 remains there until we get all through taking spawn. At that 



