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all the water that should be used, aside from what 

 would naturally drip from the fish. 



The impregnation takes place instantaneously. 



After the spawn and milt have been taken, they 

 should be jostled about in the pan for a short time, 

 so as to thoroughly mix. More water is then added: 

 when the eggs adhere to each other and to the side 

 of the pan. The spawn is then set in a hatching 

 trough where the water is flowing ; in about twenty 

 or thirty minutes it loosens up and separates. It 

 should then be washed in several waters, and 

 placed on the hatching trays. 



CHAPTER VII. 



THE REASONING POWER OF FISHES. 



FEW people know that fishes possess intelligence 

 and reasoning power. In my long experience with 

 fishes I have many times witnessed actions on 

 their part, which could not have been performed if 

 they had not possessed a certain amount of reason- 

 ing faculty, over and above what is commonly term- 

 ed instinct, with which all animal life is endowed. 



I will give a few observations which have caused 

 me to believe that fishes can reason. In the winter 

 of 1840 I hunted deer and fished for salmon trout in 

 and around Bonaparte Lake, Lewis Co., N. Y. 

 I fished by putting down one hundred hooks through 

 holes in the ice about four rods apart. These were 



