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Mr. Harron: At what temperature did the fish begin 
spawning ? 
Mr. Buller: I dont know what the temperature of the pond 
was, 

Mr. Harron: My experience is they begin always at 42°. 
Mr. Buller: I notice in all our lakes, as soon as the ice has 
left the lakes, the fish commence to work. 
Mr. Titcomb: Did you try transplanting the yellow perch 
eggs in considerable numbers any considerable distance ? 
Mr. Buller: No, but I have taken the time and have held 
them on the trays for forty-eight hours. 
Q. In water? 
A. No, sir, with a dampened cloth, and also had them in 
cans the same length of time in water, but a great many of them 
smothered. But on the dampened flannel trays they were all 
right. 
Mr. Meehan: We shipped some eggs from Erie to Belle- 
font, about 250,000, in cans. Many of them hatched on the way, 
and the bulk of the eggs that arrived were dead. 
Mr. Titcomb: Did you aerate the water? 
Mr. Meehan: Yes. In one instance I accompanied the eggs 
myself. It was remarkably cold all the way through. The tem- 
perature of the water remained stationary, 44°, from Erie to 
Wayne; and the fish began to hatch shortly after the car moved ; 
but they died almost as fast as they hatched, and before we 
reached our destination nearly all the eggs that were not hatched 
were dead. 
©. Do you consider the experiment conclusive ? 
Mr. Meehan: I should call the shipment of eggs in cans in 
this manner, a failure under those conditions, 
Mr. A. G. Buller: How do you place yceur eggs, in jars? 
Mr. Harron: I hatched them nearly all in the open tanks. 
Mr. A. G. Buller: What would be your method of putting 
