HOW TO COUNT EGGS. 11 



Having ascertained the number of eggs in 

 five grains, I send off the figures to a young 

 man, Mr. Heap, the son of one of the soldiers 

 in the 2nd Life Guards, who is an ex- 

 cellent arithmetician, which I am not, and 

 who returns me the results. By this means, 

 which others can also adopt, I have been 

 enabled to obtain the tables below, and to 

 show you the actual eggs in labelled bottles 

 kept for future reference. Now I have not 

 been Goth enough to destroy a spawning 

 salmon, but experience shows that salmon 

 carry about one thousand eggs to every 

 pound of their weight. The following table, 

 the results of the spawning operations during 

 the last season at the breeding estabhshments 

 of Stormontfields, will show the actual num- 

 ber in an individual salmon. It has been 



