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touching each other. Proceed in this manner daily until you 

 have filled the entire length. Should you choose, you can 

 put partitions betweeii each day's deposit, with date and 

 number of eggs. A box one foot wide and twenty feet long 

 will contain 100,000 eggs. It has been recommended to 

 place the spawn in gravel from one to two inches deep, in 

 imitation of the trout ; but I find by practice that the first 

 method is the better one, as it will enable you to examine the 

 spawn daily. The reason will be seen under the head of 



AFTER CAKE. 



The eggs will need to be examined every week or two, 

 and all* the dead or white ones picked out with, a pair of for- 

 ceps, made of No. 8 wire flattened at the ends. If the water 

 is perfectly pure, and above forty-two degrees through the 

 winter, but few will die. As the eggs die, a vegetable fun- 

 gus, called Byssus, attaches itself to them, and throws out 

 its little hairy fingers and clasps all the live eggs in their 

 reach and soon kills them. Hence the necessity of having 

 the eggs in sight. These hatching troughs should be cov- 

 ered with a house, containing a stove with fire, as it will 

 make it more comfortable for the operator, and aid in keep- 

 ing up the temperature of the water. 



THE TIME OF mCUBATION 



Depends upon the condition and temperature of the water. 

 The water in my hatching boxes stands this winter at thirty- 

 eight degrees, and at forty degrees in the springs. The 

 springs are from eight to thirty rods from the box, brought 

 in two-inch pipe tile, laid from two and a half to three feet 

 under ground in water-line. In this water the eggs com- 

 menced hatching the 21st of January, seventy-eight days 

 after they were put in the box, and they have been hatching 

 in great numbers, daily, since. So far, my success has been 

 beyond my most sanguine expectations, and should nothing 

 befall them I shall^have eifough to stock a number of small 



