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not well have existed for the hatching of carp eggs than that which 

 has prevailed during the past week Last June I carefully tested the same 

 matter and found the eggs to hatch in four days, the weather being favor- 

 able. We may therefore conclude that in this latitude, carp eggs will hatch 

 in from four to seven days, according as the weather is favorable or un- 

 favorable. This is quite different from the time required for the same 

 purpose in Germany, as we are informed on good authority, viz., from 

 twelve to twenty days. I may add that my spawning pond consists of 

 l-56th of an acre, is favorably located, having on the west and northwest 

 a wooded bluff. It is stocked with eleven carp received from the govern- 

 ment, and now five years old, with fifteen of their progeny three years old. 



J. H. BOURNES. 



NEW LISBON, O., May 25, 1886. 



My carp spawned on the 21st of May. On the 23d I took a small hand- 

 ful of the sea moss which I had put in the spawning pond to receive the 

 eggs and put it into a two gallon glass globe, with about three quarts of 

 rainwater, and kept it in the sun in the day time and in the house at night. 

 On the 25th, just four days, or ninety-six hours from the time the eggs 

 were laid, there were dozens of young carp to be seen in the globe. The 

 young carp are quite small but very lively. 



JAMES T. HAWKINS. 



UNDERWOOD. Tenn., June 13, 1886. 



I have two four-year-olds ; they only spawned once last year. This year 

 they spawned on April 19th and on Wednesday evening the eggs were 

 hatching. The same fish is spawning this morning but don't seem to be 

 depositing many eggs. I had one three-year-old that spawned June 7th. 

 The eggs hatched in forty-eight hours. The thermometer stood at 80 

 degrees in the water at noon. While large fish lay more eggs, I believe 

 we can get more fish from younger spawners. The old ones will eat their 

 eggs unless they are protected. I took from a seven-pound carp last 

 season a little over half a gallon of clean eggs. Did not count them. If 

 some one will count half a gallon of cabbage seeds, they can tell about 

 how many eggs to the pound of fish. My one-year-old have been spawn- 

 ing this spring; they also spawned last year. 



E. P. UNDERWOOD. 



SHiMERSViLLE,.Pa., June 14, 1886. 



I have completed a five days' experiment in taking the temperature of 

 water in my quarter-acre pond. June 9th, at 5 p. m., 76 deg. Farh., it 

 commenced to rain at 3 p. m., rained all night, cleared off in the morning 

 and at 6 a. m., June 10, the water was 78 deg. Farh., at 1 p. m. ; 84 deg. 

 Farh. at 6 :30 p. m., after a heavy thunder shower of one hour duration the 

 water was 82 deg. Farh., June 11, at 4 p. m., 80 deg. Farh. ; June 12, 6 a. m., 

 72 deg. ; 11 a. m. 82 deg. ; 3 p. m. 90 deg. ; 5:30 p. m. 88 deg. ; 8 p. m. 82 deg. 



