50 Trout Culture. 



tances ; but, excepting when sending a present 

 of eggs to a friend, there will never be any 

 necessity for doing so in the private hatching- 

 house, and the eggs should be left at rest until 

 hatched out. 



They must, however, be daily examined, and 

 all dead eggs carefully removed with the forceps 

 or nippers ; and great care must be taken at 

 first in doing this so as not to injure a living 

 one near it, and hence the benefit of spread- 

 ing the eggs at first, and once for all, with a 

 feather or otherwise, when laying them in the 

 trough. 



If kept in heaps the feather is used to spread 

 them, and thus the odds are that a second one 

 is formed, and the daily examination is much 

 prolonged, to say nothing of the bother of 

 always having a feather in hand when examin- 

 ing the eggs. 



The tyro will naturally ask, " How am I to 

 tell a dead from a living egg ? " Let him have 



