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interval may be used in spawning other trout, if 

 at hand. 



Some operators spawn all their fish in one 

 pan, but we think the course above suggested 

 preferable for many reasons. The eggs of two 

 hens are, in our opinion, enough to have in one 

 pan ; but, if short of milt, of course if there are 

 three, or even four hens to one cock, all must be 

 spawned in one pan. 



We should advise anyone intending to spawn 

 fish to have a look at the casts in the Museum 

 of Fish Culture, South Kensington. He will 

 there see exactly how the organs of generation 

 are placed in the salmonidae, and will gain a 

 good deal of useful information on that and 

 other points by his visit. 



By the old, or wet method, now almost, if not 

 quite, obsolete, the fish and the hands of the 

 operator were plunged in a vessel of water, the 

 eggs taken were very carefully washed, and then 

 the milt was stripped into a separate vessel of 



