AMATEUR FISH CULTURE 



ripe female having been obtained, from which 

 the ova flow readily, the female is held over a 

 perfectly clean tin or earthenware dish wet, but 

 containing no water and the ova are caused 

 to flow into it by gently but firmly pressing the 

 hand on the abdomen, and stroking it down to- 

 wards the vent. Milt from a ripe male fish is 

 then allowed to run over the ova in the dish, and 

 is made to run well between them by tilting the 

 dish about from side to side. The ova will now 

 adhere together, and some water should be added. 

 This water should be poured off and fresh added 

 till the superfluous milt is washed away, when 

 the ova should be left in the water till they 

 separate, which will be in about twenty minutes 

 or half an hour. 



The fertilized ova thus obtained may either 

 be laid down in artificially protected hatching 

 beds, or may be transferred to a hatchery. The 

 latter proceeding, of course, requires a hatching 

 house specially built and arranged, and as this 

 is outside the scope of the present work, I would 

 refer my readers to larger works upon the sub- 

 ject, such as An Angler's Paradise, by J. J. 

 Armistead. Of course, by using a hatchery a 

 large number of the eggs will be saved, ninety 



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