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salt bath, is very useful, and may be worked in the stream. Put 
the ripe spawners or females in one net, and the males or milters 
into another, so that they can be got at at once without any 
uncertainty. Some towels and a few spawning dishes should be 
at hand. Milk bowls will be found to answer the purpose very 
well. When the spawning ground is some distance from home a 
few enamelled metal basins are very convenient, being light and 
easily carried, and a can will be required for taking home the ova. 
Something in the shape of an ordinary milk can with a lid will be 
found useful for this purpose. A bedroom water jug is an article 
I have often used, and seems to be about as good as anything. 
Whatever is used, take care that it is perfectly clean. 
For collecting salmon and other ova, when large quantities 
are likely to be taken, I use carboys, and find them very con- 
venient. They should be filled with water, and the eggs poured 
in from a jug or other vessel. The specific gravity of the eggs 
being rather greater than that of water they go at once to the 
bottom, displacing some water in the process. When about two- 
thirds full of ova a little of it should be poured off, and the bottle 
sent forward to the hatchery with as little delay as practicable. 
On arrival there the eggs may be poured out into bowls, which 
should be held immediately under the nozzle of the carboy during 
the operation. Should it be desired to extract them without any 
jar or concussion it is quite easily done as follows :—Place a bung 
or stopper of any kind in the neck of the carboy for a moment, 
and invert it over a tank with the neck submerged, withdraw 
the stopper and the eggs will quietly gravitate to the bottom of 
the tank. 
When the fish have been duly sorted and are at hand in their 
various receptacles the work is easy enough. Some operators 
kneel down, and for beginners this is perhaps the best plan, 
though it is never done at the Solway Fishery. Some fish are 
almost sure to slip through the fingers of a novice at first, and 
they are not likely to be so much injured as they would be by a 
fall from the hands of a person standing. Even an old hand will 
let a fish slip occasionally, but the occurrence is a rare one, and 
the chances are that he so balances it, or dexterously controls its 
movements whilst falling as to send it into a tank or tub of water, 
