STOKMONTFIELD EXPERIMENT. 77 



SPAWNING OF 1859. 



This year, 1859, the first net was shot at the 

 mouth of the Almond, in order to obtain spawning 

 fish to re-stock the boxes. The following is Mr 

 Buist's report of the fish taken; 150 boxes were 

 filled: 



Taken 



297 31 19 32 255,000 



Nearly all the ova that were deposited this 

 season were salmon ova fecundated by the milt 

 of male salmon,* in order to test, on a larger scale 

 than was tried in any former experiment, if the 

 proportion of fry remaining parr for two years 

 would, under these circumstances, be still the 

 same; and the result has shown that there is no 



* There was only one female grilse spawned on the 28th November. 



