1^6 Modern PishcuUure in Presh and Salt Water. 



(about No. 14), all well coal-tarred. Pieces of scant- 

 ling were nailed to the sides of the box as floats, but 

 put at such an angle that a box two feet long had one 

 end four inches out of water and the other seven inches. 

 When fast at one end the bottom presented an incline 

 to the current which kept the eggs gently moving, and 

 the box, or gang of boxes, would swing with the tide. 

 There was tide-water where we hatched, ten miles be- 

 low Albany, N. Y., but always fresh. The tide was 



Green's Floating Box. 



feeble, and had long periods of slack at high and low, 

 when the men would have to gently shake the boxes to 

 give circulation of water. 



Green's box was good in its day, and in lieu of better 

 apparatus may be used now. The McDonald jar is used 

 by all the State and Government shad stations now, 

 even though they pump the water for the purpose. 

 With Green's box we could not remove dead eggs until 

 after they had "fungused up," and this is how we did 

 it : A light wire frame, three -inches square, covered 

 with millinet, or mosquito netting — ^the former for 

 choice — would be put on a handle and worked through 



