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in the pan. This is to be poured off', as before, and the 

 operation repeated, until the water looks perfectly clear. 

 There will be some dirt and droppings of the trout still 

 left, which can be carefully picked out with the nippers. 

 If an egg should happen to be broken, while being taken 

 from the trout, every vestige of it should be carefully 

 removed, as the slimy, sticky contents will get on the 

 other eggs and kill them. The eggs are now ready to be 

 placed in the trough, and having previously raised the 

 water in the nest to which you wish to transfer them, by 

 placing a strip across proceed as described in the chapter 

 on "Eggs." 



From the above description, it will "be seen that a few 

 lessons in artificial impregnation, from an experienced 

 hand, will probably save the beginner much time and 

 money. A written description of the process, however 

 good, can never take the place of verbal instruction ; 

 partly because it never conveys exactly the same idea to 

 all, partly because seeing a thing is better than hearing 

 about it, and mostly because a written description is a 

 general one, and hardly ever tells of the minutiae and va- 

 riations which constantly occur in practice. As an exam- 

 ple of this, it has been urged, all through this book, that 

 in moving the eggs the beginner should not touch them 

 with the feather, but should move the water over them, 

 so that the eggs should follow the current thus created ; 

 also that he should be very careful, in removing the dead 

 eggs, not to touch the others with the nippers. But, we 

 constantly move the eggs with the feather, and push to 

 one side the sound eggs with the nippers, in order to get 

 at the dead ones. The reason simply is, that long practice 

 has given the knack of doing it, without injury to the 

 eggs, that a tyro does not possess, 



