18 Fish Cultural Assoctation. 
When the rules for packing and transportation are faith- 
fully observed, you may be just as sure of finding your sal- 
mon-eggs alive at the end of a ten thousand mile journey, 
as you would be of finding your horse or your dog alive 
after a:trip from. Boston. to’ NewaYork,, The element ot wa- 
certainty in the transportation of salmon-eggs has been en- 
tirely removed in theory. When it comes to practice, it de- 
pends, of course, on whether the conditions of safety can 
be secured and carried out; but when salmon-eggs are lost 
in a month’s journey, it has been, not from any necessity for 
it, but because some of the rules for packing and transpor- 
tation have not been observed. 
The rules for packing salmon-eggs may be briefly stated, 
as follows: 
(1.) They should be packed at the right age. The right age is 
just when the choroid pigment, or eye-spot, as it is com: 
monly called, shows as a clear, distinct black spot through 
the shell of the egg.- The reason why this is the right age 
is because the embryo, previous to that stage, is too delicate 
to bear the journey, and every day after that stage is re- 
acted, the outer shell of the eee becomes more and. more 
fragile, and consequently less able to stand the pressure to 
which it must be subjected in packing. See’ Rule No.5. 
(2.) The eggs before being packed should be washed perfectly 
clean, so that every:'pore will be able to :do ‘its’ best  ser- 
wicein ‘the severe, trial ‘avhichy as /Mbefore “them: (Mit is vere 
ident if the pores of the eggs are half stopped up with 
dirt, or half covered with fungus, it is in no condition to 
survive the ordeal of a long journey in a packing-box. I 
will not reflect upon my reader’s intelligence by saying that 
the eggs must be healthy eggs to begin with, but will say 
