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THE HANDLING OF ADHESIVE EGGS. 
J. J. SERANAEAN, OF OFT: 
My excuse for preparing a paper on the handling of 
adhesive eggs must be the general interest taken among 
fish culturists in the subject, and the difficulty formerly 
experienced in this field. I however, have a purpose, 
slightly ulterior in its bearing, and that is to correct a 
statement made by Professor Jacob Reighard of Michi- 
gan, at the last meeting of the Association, as to my 
plan of handling the eggs of the pike perch. In his 
paper the Professor stated in substance that my mode 
of handling adhesive eggs is to permit them to form 
into a mass and then separate them by rubbing through 
ascreen. Of course it will go without the saying that 
the Professor has been misinformed. Our plan is— 
or rather was—to work the eggs continually until the 
adhesive tendency has passed away, changing the water 
from time to time, placing them in fifteen gallon wood- 
en tubs—the same used in collecting—on their arrival 
at the station, where for about twenty-four hours they 
are left in running water, the watchman stirring them 
from time to time, or at least once each half-hour. 
At the end of the above named time the eggs are 
fully hardened and not liable to injury. They are then 
put through a wire screen admitting the passage of but 
one egg at a time through its meshes, the lumps re- 
maining being rubbed through the screen with a large 
paint brush with long bristles. 
Careful experiments have demonstrated that the eggs 
are not injured by this course, while if the lumps are 
permitted to go into the jars the eggs composing them 
are invariably lost through being carried over by the 
