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half ail hour, and turn tlu'Ui about 20,000 at a time on the trav, 

 and ship them. 



Mr. Clark: Will they come up full size in tliirtv minutely 



Mr. Handy : Yes, sir, all right. At 9 o'cloek in tlie niornin«r 

 I put them on tlie tray, and some of them are not taken otf until 

 9 o'clock at night, and they have just a moist cloth over them. 

 I have moved six or seven million of them in the last four or five 

 years that way. When I take them in a jar I find I have a much 

 greater loss from dead water, etc., than by the method whicli 1 

 employ. They do better with no water at all — perfectly dry — 

 than in the way suggested. 



Mr. Clark: They must have clear water down our way. 



General E. E. Bryant of Madison: I would like to inquire if 

 the deduction from the discussion would be th^t the mortality of 

 the eggs arises largely, or might arise, from two sources, one, 

 that when they are at a certain critical or sensitive stage, any 

 jarring or throwing them into contact, would impair tlu' virility 

 of the e^fig; the other, the water becoming stale. Is not tlien the 

 method which should be resorted to that of the greatest eaiv in 

 liandling, to avoid any sliock or jar, any bringing of tlu' eggs 

 into forcible contact with each other, and keeping tlie tempera- 

 ture even and at the degree desired? We know when watiT l)e- 

 eomes stale it becomes infested with myriads of microlx^s of a bad 

 cbaractei- : and it would seem to me from the discussion liere 

 (and 1 speak not from actual experience) that tlie shock or jar 

 was w'vy detrimentai to the egg. Is not tlie ))roblem tlu'ii to 

 avoid \\]i' least shock and to get the temperature riglit, and to 

 obtain pui-ity of water, if you transport them in vrater? I merely 

 throw these suggestions out for inquiry. 



Mr. Atkins: It seems to me those are the two importanr 

 points, certainly, to avoid any excessive jar, and also to avoid 

 stale water. T should think that Mr. Hubbard would need, a-^ 

 Mr. Clark says, to extend his observation on those oggi^ to tho 

 hatching and the fry afterwards. T should suppose that it was 

 possil)le that eggf^ might be carried in water and show no imme- 

 diate injurv, and show no trouble in hatching, and not until the 

 fish wei-e considerably developed, and then show some weakness 

 as a result of the confinement in water allowed to g<'t stale: but 

 of course Mr. Hubbard liad an opportunity to see whether thes4' 



