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your eggs in the jar when you use the jar? Do you just lay 
them in the jar? 
Mr. Harron: I place them in the jars, just let them drop 
right in, without suspending them from a string, placing avout 
260,000 eggs in a jar. | 
Mr. A. G. Buller: I tried that in the Erie hatchery and I 
found when the fish were about ready to latch out that they 
were smothered, and few eggs came out, and wat did not come 
out were smothered. Perhaps I did not run enough water. 
Mr. Harron: I ran about two gallons. In the future I pro- 
pose to hatch them all in the jars. 
Mr. Buller: My experience was that about the time they 
were hatching out they died. What few came out died and 
what did not come out smothered in the egg. 
Mr. Harron: The fry rise very readily after hatching, and 
there is no reason why they should die in the jar. 
Mr. Buller: Probably I did not have enough water running. 
Mr. Titcomb: At another one of our stations we decided 
that the open pump, Downing jar, is the best thing for hatching 
yellow perch eggs. I hope that there will be further experi- 
mentation on the subject of transportation. It is possible for the 
bureau to go to the head of Lake Champlain and take hundreds 
of millions of yellow perch eggs. The yellow perch on Lake 
Champlain is a drug in the market. When the water rises in the 
spring these perch go into marshes and spawn, and the spawn 
is left hanging on the weeds as the water recedes ; so it is possi- 
ble to collect hundreds of millions of eggs—gallons and gallons 
of them. 
Mr. Meehan: We intend to pursue this matter, because of 
the conditions that exist in portions of our state. With us it is 
a question of propagating these fish in enormous quantities. 
We must do it. It has come to a point where for a greater part 
of the state it is necessary to hatch them in that way, and we 
intend to limit ourselves by our capacity to get them out, so that 
it will become a question of successful transportation, 
Mr. Downing: A few years ago I had a little experience in 
