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egg in the pan, and to insure this the operator thoroughly but 
carefully mixes them, using either his bare hand or the tail of a 
small fish for the purpose. 
After the eggs and milt have been thoroughly mixed a little 
water is added the pan allowed to stand a few seconds, and then 
if the fish are not coming too fast, the eggs are carefully washed 
free of all milt, after which they are placed in the keg which has 
been partly filled with water, and thus the process goes on until 
the entire catch of fish has been handled. But in case the spawn- 
ing fish are coming into the boat too fast to admit of each pan 
of eggs being washed by itself, which is often the case, they are 
emptied into the keg milt and all, and the washing deferred until 
the eggs have all been taken, when they are all washed at once, 
the water being changed until the eggs are not only clean and 
free of all milt and any other foreign substance, but until the 
eggs have so far hardened that there is no longer any danger of 
adhesion and the eggs becoming caked in the keg or other recep- 
tacle used. 
After the eggs are taken in the manner described, if the field 
in which they are taken is near the station, they are brought in 
and if sufficiently hardened they are placed in the jars, other- 
wise they are left in the kegs and the water carefully changed as 
often as once an hour until such time as they are fully hardened 
when they are placed in the jars. 
While the eggs taken in the fields remote from the station 
are first hardened and then placed upon cotton flannel trays, the 
trays placed in a case and shipped to the station. The cases used 
at this station contain twenty one trays each, the trays being 
eighteen inches square outside measurement. 
Formerly if the eggs had to be held in the field any length 
of time before shipping, it was the custom to sprinkle the eggs 
on the trays every day or two, but if the operator is not situated 
so that he can take the eggs off the trays and wash them and 
also the trays thoroughly, and repack them again, we think it 
better to leave them dry. 
The objection to the sprinkling is, that the bottom eggs be- 
come bedded in the flannel and the wetting causes the eggs to 
form a slime which soon sours, the eggs become mouldy and 
