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says, in impregnating those eggs and in getting a good impreg- 
nation. I think our record will show a hatch of something like 
90 per cent. I think Mr. Carter is mistaken in his estimate of 
50,000 eges to the quart; and his own later remarks would lead 
one to that conclusion; for eggs one-eighth of an inch in dia- 
meter will not go 50,000 to the quart. It is true that that is 
about the size of them, and they enlarge shghtly I think. (Mr. 
Carter said three times.) That was not my experience. We found 
that where they originally ran eight to the inch after they had be- 
come enlarged and water-hardened they would run about six to 
the inch. Their color after they are impregnated and water- 
hardened and have come up in shape, is that of white-fish eggs, 
such as we can get up in the northern waters of the Great 
Lakes—a little on the yellow order, but clear and transparent ; of 
course as the fish develop in the eggs you can see them moving 
right along the same as in the shad and white-fish. They are 
as easy to hatch as the grayling egg or white-fish eg 

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Mr. Carter: Did you put those eggs in the jars as soon as 
they were impregnated ? 
President: We did not hatch them in jars. 
Q. How did you prevent the sticking? 
A. There was no trouble about their adhering at all—any 
more than there is in pike-perch eggs. The eggs should be 
looked after carefully from the time they are taken away until 
they are impregnated and water-filled. 
(). How long does it take to water-fill them ? 
A. Do you mean after the eggs are taken? 
OeN Yes: 
A. I could not tell you, but the eggs were taken on Detroit 
Ziver, and when they came to us they were brought to the 
hatchery in from six to ten hours after they were first taken, and 
were then put on trout trays and hatched. Some of them were 
hatched in the river in the old fashioned Seth Green floating 
box. 

