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May Gtli. — Examined one hundred and lifty shad, found 

 iive partially ripe; obtained only three or four thousand eggs: 

 temperature of water at 2 o'clock P. M., 60°. 



May Yth. — Examined three hundred shad, none fully ripe, 

 from which few eggs were obtained ; good many from one ; 

 took 20,000 eggs in all; temperature of water at 8 P. M., 

 (U° on surface. 



May 8th. — Examined twenty-hve before day-liglit, none 

 ripe; afternoon hauls yielded one hundred and fifty, none 

 ripe; morning cool, day cloudy, temperature of water at noon 

 62°; sent for more liatching boxes ; in the evening, took 

 about four thousand spawn; t'rom Saturday to Monday, seven 

 liundred shad caught, all unripe, split and salted them; in 

 some of them roe was beginning to separate, most of them 

 compact, and in a few beginning to run near the vent. 



May 10th. — Caught about two hundred and sixty-tive in 

 the morning : in the evening, one hundred : total number 

 spawn, 20,000 from one ripe shad. 



May 11th. — Caught one hundred and sixty-live, none ripe. 



May 12th. — Caught thirty-four, none ripe. 



May 13th.- Caught sixty-iive, none ripe. 



May 14th. — Caught twenty-seven, none ripe. 



May 15tli. — Caught one hundred and thirty-six, twn par- 

 tially ripe, obtained ten thousand eggs. 



May 17th. — Caught ninety-seven, none ripe. 



May 18th. — Caught one hundred and nineteen, none ripe. 



May 19th. — Caught one hundred and eighty-nine, two 

 lipe; three partially ripe; took about sixty thousand eggs. 



May 20th. — Caught one hundred and forty-four, three ripe; 

 took sixty thousand eggs, two of the fish were stripped an 

 hour after they were dead, and milt taken from dead males 

 caught three hours before. 



May 21st. — Morning catch one hundred and twenty -nine, 

 large portion females, unripe; evening catch ninety-six, five 

 ripe, 100,000 eggs; eggs taken on 20th from dead fish, and 

 impregnated with milt from dead males, look very well ; es- 

 pecially lot carried for twenty minutes in search of milt, they 

 Avcre more fully matured than others, and nearly all good. 



May 22nd. — Morning catch ninety, none ripe ; eggs look- 

 ing well; fish quite active in those of 19th; morning tide un- 

 usually low at 2^ o'clock A. M.; found five boxes of eggs 

 taken last evening entirely out of water; temperature of air 

 and water about the same; eggs being moist were uninjured; 

 evening, catch seventy of them four ripe females, 100,000 eggs. 



May 23rd. — One seine hauled two hundred and sixty-five 



