108 DOMESTICATED TROUT. 



same time in vastly greater numbers to the cubic line 

 than in the pan of water. 



" The dry method of taking eggs was first discovered 

 by M. Vrasski, a Russian, from whom it is called the 

 Russian method.* He experimented with the eggs 

 of sterlits, we believe, at Nikolsk, Russia, and by 

 careful and scrupulous observation with microscope 

 and note-book solved in two months the mystery of 

 the previous meagre impregnations, and made this 

 most important discovery of which we are speaking. 



" It is very singular that sixteen years should have 

 elapsed before the knowledge of this remarkable 

 discovery should have reached America. But sixteen 

 years did pass, and many more might have passed 

 had it not been for the enterprise of Mr. George Shep- 

 hard Page, President of the Oquossoc Angling Associa- 

 tion, who had the experiments of M. Vrasski translated 

 into English, and who caused a review of his work to 

 be printed in the New York Citizen of May 27, 1871, 

 which we would recommend all practical fish culturists 

 to read. 



" To Mr. Page, therefore, belongs the honor of intro- 

 ducing into this country this discovery, second to none, 

 in practical importance, that has been made in the art 



* French experimenters had also discovered that undiluted 

 milt lived longer than the diluted, but the discovery led to no 

 practical results. Previous to 1853, or more than three years 

 before the Russian experiments, M. de Quatrefages preserved 

 milt alive 64 hours by putting it on ice and allowing the water to 

 flow off as fast as it melted. Annals of the Natural Sciences, 

 1853, Third Series, Vol. XIX. p. 34. 



