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the jar is three-quarters full, then pour in the eggs out of 

 the hatching box, let the jar run full and regulate the glass 

 tube by pushing down or drawing up in the board so that 

 the eggs will be continually in motion. Take care that all 

 the eggs are in motion, and none of them get piled on the 

 bottom at one side. Before the eggs are put into the jars, 

 they should first stand three or four days in the hatch- 

 ing box. 



After the eggs have been three or four days in the jar 

 take away the board and the tube. When the eggs have 

 settled down on the bottom of the jar it will be found that 

 the good eggs have separated themselves from the bad, the 

 fertilized eggs lying all underneath on the bottom and the 

 bad eggs on top. Now turn the water slowly out of the 

 jar, and the bad eggs will run out with the water. Should 

 some of the bad eggs get mixed with the good ones, then 

 let in the water again till the jar is half full and repeat the 

 turning off. 



Now insert the glass tube again in the jar and regulate 

 it so that the eggs are all in motion. Should bad eggs 

 again show themselves, repeat the operation. rVs soon as 

 the eye-points appear, pour the eggs back into the hatching 

 boxes. Should a few bad ones appear among them, they 

 may be taken out with pliers. Commonly, after three or 

 four days all the fish will be hatched. Let them stay in 

 the boxes till they have lost the yolk-sac. Then take them 

 out with a small gauze dipnet, put them in a pail of water 

 and liberate them in the lake or pond in a sunny and 

 quiet spot. 



A man who has one or more ponds at his disposal grown 

 with a good deal of grass and sedge, and stocked with not 

 too small carp or other high-class fish, will do well to put 

 the pike fry in them until autumn. For food give, if avail- 

 able, fish-spawn, which is just fine for small pike. In the 

 fall they have commonly grown so that it takes five to ten 

 for a pound, and they can then be released in the lake, 

 or will find ready purchasers for stocking purposes. 



