74. Thirty-Third Annual Meeting 
Mr. Carter: I referred to the statements given in the Man- 
ual of Fish Culture. 
Mr. Titecomb: Does that refer to the rubicundus ? 
Mr. Carter: I suppose it refers to the kind of sturgeon 
handled by fish culturists. 
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Mr. Jones: Did you measure those eggs 
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Mr. Carter: We measured half a pint and estimated the 
balance from that measurement as being 50,000 to the quart. 
We had to do our work very hurriedly and were not prepared to 
handle the eggs as we thought they should be handled. 
Mr. Lydell: I have had a little experience with sturgeon— 
very limited though. It was my good luck to have the fish com- 
mission send me down the Detroit River ten or twelve years ago 
to experiment with sturgeon. I was very successful in getting 
a ripe female and ripe male within a few minutes of each other, 
and they both came ashore at the same time. I immediately 
plugged the female with my handkerchief, took the milt out of 
the male, mushed it up with a stick like a potato masher, and 
left it until I got the female ready. And the method I used for 
getting her eggs was taking a big butcher knife and letting the 
eggs all fall into a tub, and then I poured the milt in and stirred 
for 84 of an hour, then the eggs were put in hatching boxes and 
we hatched something like 185,000, and had no trouble in keep- 
ing them from adhering. 
Mr. Titcomb: Did you use flat buckets ? 
Mr. Lydell: No, we used the Seth Green’ hatching boxes; 
we put about half a quart in a box and had a row of boxes half 
a mile long. (Laughter). The little fish I noticed were drop- 
ping through the meshes in the boxes, so I got some wire and 
held some of them until the fish commission got a professor 
there, but when he got there they were all hatched and in the 
river. 
Mr. Jones: How do you arrive at your conclusion of 185,- 
090 fish hatched ? 
