274 SEASON 1878-79. 



note regarding the same lot : " Some close on 2 Ibs. One 

 jumped out the night before last, and a cat ate the tail half. The 

 part left weighed over a Ib." 



The fry for the Craigend ponds were turned out in August, and 

 about 30,000 were placed in each of the 130-feet ponds. These 

 were fry from eggs obtained at Kinross. The east and centre 

 20-feet plank ponds at Howietoun were also stocked from the 

 same source, while the lower 20-feet was stocked with S. leven- 

 ensis from my own fish, being the first generation from parents 

 bred in confinement. 



On the 8th November 1878 I commenced to spawn the Loch- 

 leven trout in the centre 130-feet wooden pond at Howietoun, and 

 obtained a large number of eggs from them. 



I also spawned the fario in the 60-feet wooden pond on the 

 30th November, and obtained 50,000 eggs. These fario were a 

 year younger than the Levens in the centre pond. 



I placed the eggs in two of the deep boxes in the Howietoun 

 hatching-house. They eyed on the 15th March, that is to say, a 

 few of them did, as the deep hatching-trays were not a success, 

 having killed almost every egg intrusted to them by the 8th 

 February. In the beginning of January I purchased 10,000 

 S.fontinalis eggs from Mr. Capel of Footscray. They arrived in 

 very good condition, and their descendants have now thoroughly 

 established themselves at the Fishery. This was the coldest season 

 I have experienced at Howietoun, none of the eggs in that hatch- 

 ing-house hatching in less than 157 days. On the 13th January 

 I removed the grilles from the boxes in the hatching-house at 

 Howietoun, and washed them in air by means of a watering-pot 

 with a very fine rose. This made the eggs beautifully clean, and 

 killed very few, although they were not nearly eyed, in fact, the 

 earliest did not eye for more than five weeks afterwards. The 

 temperature of the air at the time was 33 F., but next morning I 

 found a considerable difference in the boxes. 



In Box viti. I found I had killed about 1000 eggs. This 

 box, from being one of the outside boxes, was the coldest and 

 considerably the most backward. The eggs were spawned on 



