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handling. Our \\ater at that time in September was about 50 de- 

 degrees. We have a lot of mud in our troughs, too, because the 

 supj^ly of water comes from a creek, and the eggs were covered 

 with mud at the time, that is, the top, so we couldn't tell what was 

 in the basket. They were there fifteen days before you could see 

 the spinal colunm. I would suggest if anyone was going to build 

 a basket, that instead of making it with the wooden rim they use a 

 number eight steel wire. I would like to ask Mr. Thompson how 

 that basket is arranged, if it goes to the bottom of the trough? 



Mr. Thompson: The basket is supported on the side of 

 the trough, and )'ou can regulate it, that is, you can make it any 

 depth. {){ course, you don't want it to rest on the bottom. You 

 can have it an inch or more from the bottom, as ycu desire. 



I was going to say in relation to Mr. O'Malley's remarks, 

 the Harrington & King Co., of Chicago, can make them of 

 zinc ; there is no rust to the perforated zinc and I think it is no 

 more expensive and probably more durable. 



Mr. O'Malley: My idea of the steel rim for the basket was 

 to do away with that wooden apparatus to keep the basket off 

 the bottom of the trough. In the salmon trough we use four 

 small pegs, one for each corner. 



Mr. Thompson: On the baskets? 



Mr. O'Malley: No, T mean the other little cleats up on the 

 trougli, and the basket rests on each corner. 



Mr. Ravenel : On the side of the trough? 



Mr. O'Malley: No, on the bottom. 



The President : I want to discuss with Mr. Clark a little 

 more about the handling of green eggs. 1 do not agree with him. 

 I have handled trout si^awn a number of years, and we used to 

 transport the green spawn on a few liours' rvm the first or second 

 day after they were stripped. Then we adopted the plan of 

 setting up troughs at our field station. We set up a trough in a 

 tent sometimes and eye our eggs there. In other cases we get 

 hold of a deserted farm house, or put up a little shanty, in one 

 of which I eyed last fall 600,000 eggs before I took them to the 

 hatchery at all, and we found we could get a much larger per- 



