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DOMESTICATED TROUT. 



absorbing action of the other.* The consequent ad- 

 vantage is obvious. 



This discovery being of great practical importance, 

 perhaps I may be excused for quoting at length from 

 my editorial on the subject in the New York Citizen 

 and Round Table of March 9, 1872. 



THE RUSSIAN OR DRY METHOD OF IMPREGNATION. 



" The most important discovery of the past year in 

 fish-breeding in this country was the method of the 

 dry impregnation of the eggs of winter-spawning fish. 



" Its importance consists in this, namely, that almost 

 one hundred per cent of the eggs can be fertilized 

 and hatched in this way, while hitherto, with the one 

 exceptional instance of our great prophet, Seth Green, 



* The following table shows the percentage of Salmon eggs 

 impregnated by the dry method at the Maine State Salmon- 

 Breeding Establishment, in 1871, under the charge of Commis- 

 sioner Charles G. Atkins, of Maine. 



