D4 Thirty-fourth Annual Meeting. 
Mr. Titcomb: There is no object in it if you can take them 
to the main station in that way and revive them with salt solu- 
tion. 
Mr. Clark: Yes, if your salt solution will work. 
Mr. Titcomb: I would like to see the problem worked at 
by different fish culturists. There must be a difference in spec- 
ific gravity between live and dead brook trout eggs, just as there 
is between live and dead common eggs, and a test with different 
solutions ought to disclose a solution by the use of which the 
dead eggs would rise to the surface and separate themselves from 
the live ones. 
Mr. Clark: I am not prepared to say that I have made ex- 
periments far enough in this matter to speak decisively. We 
should like to have the problem solved if it will help us out on 
the lake trout question; but with us the brook trout is a com- 
paratively small matter. But if it won’t work on the green eggs, 
I cannot see the value of it; unless shipments come in from the 
field containing unfertilized eggs, and they change their color 
enroute, and are ready to be removed upon arrival. 
Mr. Titecomb: There is one condition that prevails in sal- 
mon work that does not prevail in the trout work. ‘The salmon 
eges all being eyed and placed in the baskets, say three inches 
deep, a solid mass of eggs; while Mr. Clark would have that 
same number of eggs in probably half a dozen trays, one on top 
of another. 
Mr. Clark: Three trays. 
Mr. Titcomb: An inch deep of eggs on each tray. 
ood . 
Mr. Clark: Practically, yes, aside from the size of the trays. 
Mr. Titeomb: How many layers of eggs to the tray? 
A. They are full. 
Q. About three layers of eggs? 
A. They are full, about three layers. 
Mr. Ward Bower: I do not consider the use of the salt 
solution to be practical in the handling of quinnat salmon eggs, 
