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time those that were taken first are ready to put in the hatching 

 apparatus, and I really do not see any advantage unless it is 

 where you have them by the bushel. 



Mr. Wilmot : It is the speediest way by all means to do, and 

 I think if you try it once you will be a convert. 



The President : Do you pour them right into the trays dry ? 



Mr. Green : No ; my version is that you cannot handle them 

 too carefully, and that there would be a great many less spawn 

 killed provided they had a little thin shell on them that you 

 could see when they were killed — when they broke. A salmon's 

 spawn will stand more than any other, and whitefish and shad 

 less than any of them. I think that to pour any of them into a 

 dry tray that you would have a good deal of picking to do in 

 the course of ten or twelve days. 



Mr. Wilmot : We laid down several millions of eggs this 

 year, and that is the system we pursued. 



Mr. Mather : Just as soon as this little animalcule, or 

 spermatozoa, enters the egg, if the theory is correct that the egg 

 immediately closes, how then can we account for the production 

 of double fish ? We have two perfect fish often in one egg, 

 joined on one side, and sometimes with two heads. The ques- 

 tion is whether more than one of those entered in order to 

 accomplish that. 



Mr. Green : There is such a thing as two of anything getting 

 into a hole at the same time. 



Prof. Milner : Multiplying the number of spermatozoa that 

 enter the eggs would not have anything to do with making 

 twins. That relates entirely to the double yolk or to the two 

 germ-spots, perhaps, in the egg. In all the elementary works on 

 anatomy they give illustrations of the egg of the squirrel after 

 impregnation, and in a number of instances there w T ere as many 

 as a dozen spermatozoa that had entered the outer coating and 



