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In every process of the management and handling of 

 eggs we have urged the greatest care and delicacy. 

 Others however, claim that a rougher treatment will an- 

 swer equally well and save much trouble. We give the 

 following method adopted by Mr. Wilmot of Canada, as a 

 specimen case. He says : " I have adopted a new plan 

 this year, and I have fonnd it to answer admirably, and 

 infinitely better than the one I have practiced hitherto. 

 I formerly practiced the same system that I allude to, 

 namely, taking the eggs from the fish and putting the 

 milt upon them, and then allowing them to remain twenty 

 or thirty minutes. The system I have adopted this year, 

 I think, will be conclusive in itself as showing the benefit 

 that we have derived from it and the amount of labor 

 saved. The system that I have adopted is this : we take 

 the female fish out of the water and strip her as rapidly 

 as possible ; perhaps two or three fish are taken out one 

 after the other, so that in some instances we will have 

 nearly a gallon of eggs — a half of a gallon any way, or 

 three-fourths of a gallon — in one vessel. We then take 

 the male fish and begin stripping him in a like manner 

 to get the milt. An attendant is standing immediately 

 alongside ot the other gentleman who is manipulating. 

 He has a measure which is calculated to hold a thousand 

 or two thousand, as the case may be, and he stands im- 

 mediately alongside and dips these eggs out as rapidly as 

 possible and puts them on the breeding-tray, and the 

 breeding-tray is put in the hatching-trough. In that way 

 I have impregnated a larger number of eggs by far than 

 I have in the last seven years in which I have been 

 engaged in this worK. It is simple in itself, and so differ- 

 ent from what has hitherto been practiced, that I thought 

 it advisable to mention it here, because it is so much 

 better than any other system I know of." 



