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scientific friends. If it is found that we are getting good eggs 
and the loss is subsequent, an eyeing station must be established 
near the place of taking. There will be no dearth in the supply, 
for there are billions of eggs in Saginaw Bay. 
Mr. Fullerton: How would you eye the eggs at that station ? 
Mr. Clark: Mr. Downing’s experience is practically ours. 
At first they appear to be the nicest looking eggs you ever saw; 
but shortly after that you have the worst mess imaginable; and 
still 50 or 60 per cent of them will be eyed. 
Mr. Fullerton: You will have to get a battery of jars on 
your fishing grounds at Saginaw Bay. 
Mr. Clark: We would simply put up a hatchery, that is all; 
not temporary, but rather a cheap affair. I have some plans 
prepared that have not yet been submitted to the office. 
Mr. Fullerton: Then you would not hatch them out right 
there? 
Mr. Clark: No, only what are to be planted right there in 
Saginaw Bay. If we should take large numbers of eggs we could 
plant some of the fry back in the bay at that point and simply 
eye and send the remainder to the hatching stations. One of our 
arrangements with the Michigan Fish Commission was to annu- 
ally turn over 50,000,000 eyed eggs, which we nearly accom- 
plished this year. 
Mr. Fullerton: We are interested in the pike-perch in Min- 
nesota; and our methods are somewhat lke those described in 
the paper read; but we are always very careful, and it pays to 
have lots of tubs. We use the corn starch very freely and keep a 
man continually washing them out; and we find the more they 
are washed with that corn starch water, fresh water being added 
to the corn starch, pouring that off and washing the eggs again, 
and keeping them in motion, the better results we have. In fact 
we have hardened them in sample tubs, then placed them in 
marked jars, and hatched over 90 per cent. Only one female was 
used, a medium sized fish, and the eggs would be all like shot, 
never stuck together, no fungus in the jar; and I think it would 
pay each state to give more attention to that particular point. 
But it will require more work and more men. 
