Packing and Transportation of Salmon-eges. 23 
Mr. Mitner: The first published report on the subject 
was made by Mr. Atkins, and in the second Report made by 
the United States Commissioner, in referring to the subject, 
it was credited to Mr. Atkins. But in a translation made 
and carried into the same volume it was found that the 
fish-culturists in Switzerland had practiced the same thing 
with some success, and that the credit was due to these 
Swiss. 
THE PresipENT: The first report was made by Mr. Page. 
Mr. Green: In October, 1864, I took some spawn of 
the trout, and used the method that everybody else had tried 
as far as I had heard. I took the spawn in a vessely and 
filled it one-third or one-half full of water, and then stripped 
the spawn into the water, and then stripped the 
mutiny /and;-then;.stirred it . withthe. fish’s»:tail;. that avas 
the old style. That was all that was known of it when I 
commenced. Well, I kept on taking spawn for sixteen days. 
The! temperature of) the water, lusedwas 52 deg. ior«52 
dem.» “At the -end of sixteen days I could tell which eggs 
were and which were not impregnated. I counted several 
hundred spawn, and found 25 per cent. impregnated. I told 
this <toi'a, gentlemany: who -came Lto.“see: me; and) he said, 
“That is as good as was ever done in any country.” I said, 
“Tf that is the case, 1 will not stay in this hatching-busi- 
ness very long, because I cannot take out 75 per cent. of 
” 
these spawn.” At night I thought it over. In the mean time 
I examined the milt of the male under a microscope, and 
watched the little animalcule, and supposed that in their 
movements they went into the egg. I said to myself, “ Sup- 
pose I do not use so much water; suppose I do not use 
any at all.” Next morning I got some spawn and milt, and 
did not use any water, but sifted it down and covered it 
