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could be kept sweet. The roe is not to be obtained during warm weather. 

 The eggs are very small and, therefore, suitable in size for small fry, and 

 they could be crushed into a sort of paste which floats readily on the surface 

 of the water and proves attractive to the young fish. This has also been 

 employed very effectively at the hatchery of the South Side Sportsmen's 

 Club, near Oakdale. L. I. It forms a cheap and nutritious food for young 

 fish. 



Maskalonge. 



The egg-taking season on Chautauqua lake began April 18, 1906, and 

 on April 30th Foreman Brown reported that the fish were about done 

 spawning below Bemus Point, but were nicely started up the lake. A snow 

 storm in late April delayed the spawning. On Ma}- 7th Mr. Brown reported 

 7.000,000 eggs in the hatchery. On May 16th one jar of eggs commenced 





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to hatch. The shell of the egg was very dark — almost black. Premature 

 hatching occurred in some cases, very likely on account of the difference in 

 temperature between the lake water and the water of the artesian well, a 

 difference amounting to seven or eight degrees. When eggs carried in the 

 lake water were placed in the jars at the hatchery during such a difference 

 of temperature many of them hatched prematurely. 



At Bemus Point the eggs are brought to the hatching period in glass 

 jars, but the embryo is too heavy to swim out of the jar, and it is therefore 

 transferred to trays placed in running water in the hatchery troughs. The 

 trays have wire cloth at each end to permit a rapid and uniform flow of 

 water and to prevent the banking up of the fry at the lower end of the 

 tray. 



Mr. William Buller, of Cony, Pa., has hatched maskalonge eggs on the 

 finest trout trays in water at a temperature of forty-five degrees. He 



