American Fisheries Society. Pan 
After the eggs reach the station they are washed off the trays 
into the large wooden tubs, the common wash tub being used. 
the name of the spawner and that of the fishermen from whom 
the eggs are obtained together with the date upon which the 
eggs are taken, are written on a card and attached to the tub, so 
that a record may be kept not only of the spawner’s work but the 
date upon which the eggs are taken and the locality from which 
they came. The eggs are usually left in the tubs over night, the 
mght watchman changing the water on them every hour. ‘The 
next morning they are placed in the hatching jars, from three 
to three and a half quarts being placed in each jar. And right 
here is where the fish culturist’s work begins, and we believe that 
all those who have propagated this fish will agree that it requires 
more work and vigilance to successfully care for a given number 
of quarts of the eggs of the Pike-perch than of any others that 
are hatched in jars. The farmer’s boy in describing the work 
of “watching gap” while the grain is being hauled from the field, 
very aptly describes the work of the fish-culturist. The boy 
asked if the fence could not be put up so that he would not have 
to stay and keep the cattle out of the grain. His father said, 
“Oh pshaw, boy, that isn’t hard work.” The boy said, “No, I 
know it aint, but it is so d—d busy.” And this is the case with 
the fish-culturist’s work. He gets the eggs overhauled, siphoned 
off, and his jars adjusted to his satisfaction and is feeling pretty 
well satisfied with himself. He then goes away for a few min- 
utes to attend to some other matter, and returns to find the jars 
full to the top and on the point of overflowing, the eggs in nearly 
a solid mass with little canals running through them from the 
bottom of the jars upward through which the water winds its 
devious way to the top; then there are cuss words, and a strong 
wish that all eggs of this class were in perdition, but it avatls 
nothing, and there is nothing for it but to take down the jars, 
pass the eggs through the screen and set them up again. 
This year, however, we have been bothered less with this 
banking in the jars than ever before, and we credit our freedom 
from it to the use of corn starch. Each spawner was supplied 
with a quantity of corn starch and instructed to place just 
enough of the starch in the water to make it of a milky con- 
sistency, then the eggs are taken according to the previous 
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