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about 25% of them produced fish. From the other two 

 — one that ripened after being in the car 12 hours and 

 one after 24 hours confinement — more than two million 

 good eggs were taken and fertilized with milt from male 

 fish held in the car. Most of the fish penned, however, 

 developed fungus and soon died. 



I arrived at Weldon on May 2d and the next day 

 visited Mr. Fitzhugh at his slide. I found the water in 

 the car very filthy as there was no circulation through 

 it. As it was too late in the season to build a suitable 

 car of slats with rounded edges we cut out part of each 

 end of the car and over the openings thus formed we 

 tacked wire cloth. Suitable nets or netting for handling 

 these fish alive cannot be purchased at Weldon so we 

 got a large piece of burlap out of which we made a net 

 for handling the fish in the live-car and just back of 

 the water rushing through the slide we placed another 

 large piece of burlap. This piece of burlap was kept 

 damp by spray from the swiftly moving water and large 

 fish coming upon the slide were immediately wrapped 

 in it and in that way carried to the live-car. At that 

 time the water in the river was very low, clear and 

 warm, registering 76 degrees; too warm to get the best 

 results with these eggs and too low for fish to get above 

 the slide so that but ten female fish were available for 

 tests during my detail of two weeks there. The result 

 of these tests are herewith presented in tabulated form 

 and further explained in the "remarks" that follow. No 

 tabulated data was kept of the tests made before my 

 arrival. 



REMARKS. 



(a) I examined this fish at 10 a. m. May 10th. At 

 that time she seemed soft enough to be ripe but no eggs 

 came from her. At 3 p. m. on the same day Mr. J. E. 

 Moody and I examined her and found her ripe and that 

 she had already cast about half her eggs. The eggs 

 remaining in her were taken and fertilized with milt 

 from male fish that had been held in the pen. After 



