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from iron rust, as rust on the tin or on the trays or 

 screens which the eggs touch will kill them to a cetainty. 

 We have given this as the best method of shipping 

 eggs, but larger boxes may be used for salmon eggs if 

 large numbers are to be shipped and it is important to re- 

 duce labor to the minimum. In such case a partition of 

 thin board should separate the box into two or more 

 divisions and be supported by strips of wood so as to 

 support the moss and eggs above. If these boxes are 

 then packed in open crates in hay, straw or saw dust, ice 

 may be placed above them and allowed to drip on the 

 crates and among the straw, if they are to be exposed for 

 a long time to hot weather. 



They may be advantageously sent in refrigerator cars 

 which are kept at a uniform temperature, or in the com- 

 partment of vessels appropriated to the shipment of 

 fresh meat. The feggs of the California salmon have 

 been safely sent to New Zealand. In 1876 shipments of 

 eggs were made from San Francisco to New Zealand and 

 arrived in such good order that over seventy-live per 

 cent, of them hatched. The eggs after being packed, 

 had to be carried two miles over a rough road, with the 

 thermometer 104 degrees in the shade, then taken by 

 railroad three hundred miles, and finally transported by 

 steamer over seven thousand miles to the antipodes, 

 crossing the equator on the way. So it is apparent there 

 is little difficulty in transporting salmon eggs. 



Another plan is 'to make a box of about a foot square 

 with trays like drawers to slide into it and fit on one- 

 another, which are kept in place by a door to the front 

 of the box. The trays are nearly an inch deep, and are 

 merely strips of wood nailed in the shape of a square 

 with a bottom of canton fiannel. The upper drawer 

 has a lid of canton flannel also. The trays are placed in 



