150 Tzvcnty-ninth Annual Meeting 



]\Ir. Hubbard: I would like to say a few words in regard to 

 the basket. In taking- the dead eggs from the basket, the basket 

 being- filled about half full, you just lift it up and raise it in that 

 manner, which gives a boiling motion to the eggs and allows 

 the dead ones to be seen. 



The President: You don't do that during the delicate stage 

 of the eggs? 



Mr. Hubbard : No. Now they are not a long time in the 

 delicate stage and you can leave them all that time without pick- 

 ing out the dead ones. 



Mr. Ravenel: How many days would it take to eye the 

 eggs? 



^Ir. Hubbard: At a temperature of 38 it would take, well^ 

 two months at least. 



Mr. Ravenel : On the Pacific Coast they cover up the eggs 

 two to four days after they are taken and they do not uncover 

 them until the delicate stage is passed; it may vary from 15 to 

 30 days. The eggs become covered with a sediment, but they 

 wash them and have very little loss. 



Mr. Hubbard : I don't see much difference between the 

 salmon and trout eggs, as to one being more difficult to handle 

 than the other. 



]\lr. Ravenel: I think experiments have shown that brook 

 trout eggs will stand transportation better than salmon eggs. 



Mr. Dinsmore: We have always eyed eggs in thirty days. 

 My .experience in eyeing eggs has been that there would be about 

 15 days, or perhaps 20, that I would consider them critical, in- 

 jurious to handle. Now, if they are left a week before you pick 

 them over, everv bad egg^ that you touch would fall away. If 

 they are left 20 days without being disturbed all the eggs under- 

 neath and over a bad egg form into a ball. 



Mr. Thompson: In order to further discussion along that 

 line I would like ^Ir. Hubbard to state the result of an experi- 

 ment that he made out on the Pacific Coast regarding leaving 

 salmon eggs in the baskets during that period. 



Mr. Hubbard: This lot of salmon eggs was picked over 



