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to the hatcher}' at Colebrook. The field stations are located ten 

 or twelve miles from the hatchery, and the mode of proeed\in 

 was, to capture the fish and strip them on the fishing gi'ounds. 

 The eggs, after being fertilized, and washed, were then placed 

 in glass fruit jars filled with water. The jars were filled gradu- 

 ally as the eggs were taken. The work being usually done in the 

 morning and the eggs kept in the jars, with an occasional change 

 of water, till afternoon, when they were taken, by team, to the 

 hatchery; thus being in the jars at least five or six hours. T do 

 not know just what the loss, resulting from the transportation, 

 was, but understand it was very small. . 



In 1901 the United States Fish Commission was operating" 

 a field station on Lake Sunapee, in connection with the Nashua, 

 N. H., station, where both salmon and trout eggs were taken, 

 and, as it would be quite a saving in expense, and avoid a consid- 

 erable risk, if the eggs could be transferred while in the green 

 stage, to the Nashua station, rather than be left at the field sta- 

 tion until eyed, I decided to make the attempt to ship them in 

 glass jars. The results were as follows : 



On October 21, 1901, 15,000 brook trout eggs were taken 

 from the field station to Nashua. These eggs were taken ivom 

 the fish October 15, 17 and 20, therefore the oldest of them 

 woidd be six days old at the time of sliipment. The follo^ving 

 day they were picked over and one hundred bad eggs, or about 

 two-thirds of one per cent was found to be the loss. On Novem- 

 ber 9th of the same year 20,000 salmon eggs were taken from the 

 station in the same manner to Nashua. These eggs were taken 

 from the fish Nov. 5, 7 and 9, so at the time of shii)ment the old- 

 est of them were four days old. When they were picked over 

 ;|,200 eggs, or about 16 per cent was found to be tlie loss. The 

 following year, 1902, the same field station was operated and the 

 same experinu^iits repeated, witli ilic result that of 1(5,100 l)rook 

 trout eggs slapped to Nashua on October 24th, 330, or a little 

 over 2 per cent was found to be the loss. These eggs were taken 

 October Hi. Hi, IS. 22 and 24, so the first of them were fourteen 

 days old al the time of sliipment. On Novend)er 11th, 23,000 

 salmon eggs were shipjjed to Nashua, and the loss, when they 

 were ])ick('d ovci'. was 5,<S75, or a little more than 25 per cent. 

 Tbcsc eggs wci-c taken Xov. (i, T and 10. ami shipped on thv_* 



