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relatively. They do remarkably well, and feed on the same food 
readily. 
Mr. Nathan R. Buller: Most all my eggs were gathered 
green, and I found the trays gave the best satisfaction carrying 
green eggs in water. While they had all the attention possible 
I found a great many of them were dead. I don’t say carrying 
them half a day, but these experiments of holding these eggs 
were for a couple of days. And I have also taken the eggs from 
the lake and carried them on the trays and placed them in the 
evening, and had perch in the morning, and they went through 
successfully. I brought up this question about the perch in the 
pond because I believe that it can be made a very fine pond fish 
with pond culture, the same as trout, if we do not run up against 
something next year that we did not see this year. 
Mr. Downing: I would like to ask if the eggs handled were 
taken from the fish? 
Mr. Buller: Most of the eggs were gathered. I expressed 
some of the eggs; but the natural impregnation was much better 
than mine was. 
Mr. Downing: In my experience I took the eggs from the 
fish. 
Mr. Buller: The natural impregnation was better than 
mine. 
Mr. Lydell: Some years ago when I was collecting wall- 
eyed pike spawn in the Saginaw district for the Michigan Fish 
Commission, I had opportunity to take a great many perch eggs, 
and we used to strip them as they came aboard of the boat in 
great numbers and turn them over into the bay. At one time 
we stripped a large pail full of them and sent them down to the 
hatchery at Detroit. We took the eggs ourselves right from the 
fish and put them in a jar that had some cross-sections in it, 
and the eggs were wound around in there so that they could not 
float up against the screen. They apparently did hatch, and 
after the last egg had hatched, I either drew upon my imagina- 
tion a great deal, or they seemed to commence hatching from 
the gelatin after that. (Laughter.) I did not know exactly 
when it was going to stop. 
