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use the power of beginning to move as they do when 

 placed in contact with water. Closed in a dry phial, 

 and well corked, the milt preserves its impregnating 

 virtue during six days. 



" From these observations, as also from the fact 

 that the eggs as well as the milt are obtained slowly, 

 their entire mass not being able to issue at once, M. 

 Vrasski arrived at the conclusion, that when they were 

 received in water, the greater part of the eggs attempted 

 to saturate themselves with it, and the spermatozoa 

 ceased to move almost before it was possible for the 

 fish-breeder to mix the eggs with the diluted milt. 

 M. Vrasski then adopted the system of dry vessels, 

 and turned the milt on the eggs directly he put them 

 in water. The success was complete ; all the eggs 

 were impregnated without one exception." 



The above speaks for itself, so that all we need 

 further do is to congratulate M. Vrasski on his success, 

 and thank Mr. George Shephard Page for publishing 

 them in America, whence we have received them 

 through the Rev. L. Stone, an eminent pisciculturist. 



To revert to the eggs which we left in the egg can. 

 This must be carried home carefully, and its contents 

 distributed in the troughs by the aid of the glass tube ; 

 the covers are then to be placed on the troughs, and a 

 good supply of water turned on. In arranging eggs in 

 troughs it is always advisable to fill from the lowest 

 upwards, as by this means the shells of the first 

 hatched lot do not interfere with those eggs which 

 hatch later on. 



The above remarks apply only when the eggs have 

 to be carried but a short distance, and are not subject 

 to the jars of rail and carriage transit. Where this is 



