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lltli, so the oldest, of them at tlie time of shipment weiv live 

 days. The Qgg» taken at the Lalce Snnapee fiehl station were ail 

 handled in the same manner. After beinji" tak't'n from the fish 

 they were placed in liatching trouglis where they were kept fo;- 

 several days, in one ease as many as fourteen, and until thev 

 were shipped to Nashua. At the time of shipment they were 

 placed in two-quart iiiass fruit jars, the jars being full of water. 

 The covers were then put on and the jars sealed tight. The eggs 

 were placed in the jars before 3 2 o'clock in the morning, and did 

 not arrive at the liatehery at Nashua till about 8 o'clock in the 

 evening, therefore being in the jars all of eight hours, (hiring 

 which time they were not opened. The jars, containing the 

 eggs, were packed in a ])0x of hay with ice enough in the top to 

 keep the temperature of th(> water down to al)out 4tl degrees. 



To recapitulate: Tiie experiments made by me in Oregon 

 resulted in demonstrating that it was not advisable to attemiu 

 to move green salmon eggs. 'J'he work done by the New liain|i- 

 shire Fish Commission shows that green brook trout eggs ha\(' 

 been transported by them, with small loss, for several years. Tlie 

 i-esult of ex])eriments made at tlie Lake Sunapee field st^ition 

 show the loss foi- 1901 in the transj)ortation of green brook trout 

 eggs to have Ix'cn about two-thirds of one per cent, and of sahnon 

 eggs 16 per cent. In 1!)(I2 the loss of brook ti'out eggs was about 

 two per cent and of salmon eggs 2o per cent. 



I understand from J. X. Wisner, Field Superinten.ik-nt. noxr 

 in charge of the Clackamas, Oregon, station, and from .1. W. 

 Berrian, foreman of the Eogue Eiver, Oregon, station, that at 

 both places they have bwn successful in transporting freshly 

 taken salmon eggs, in cans while they were in the milt, and be- 

 fore they had been washed, for a mile or two, from the spawning 

 ground to the station, being ])er]uips two hours on the journey. 

 This, of course, demonstrates tliat freshly taken salmon ogg^ can 

 be transported successfully for an hour or two while they are in 

 tlie milt and before they have been washed, Imt has no l)earing 

 on the question as to whether gi'een salmon or trout eggs wiT 

 iH-ar transportation willi the least loss when they are from one 

 to twelve davs ohl. 



