Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1886-09-11

az GiUs me a call. sep16-y.
erous At years. one viii yield from
400 to 500, and occasionally as high as
1000 eggs. Ithas been affirmed that a
trout will yield 1000 eggs to every
pound OF its weight. but my experience
does not warrant me In expecting any
thing like so much. IL we get l,5O0
eggs from a two-pound or even two
and half pound trout, we think we
are doing we'll
We have had here this season, or
have now, salmon-trout eggs, young
trout fry, and eggsof the German brown
trout.
DIFFERENT METHODS OF HATcHING.
The manner Of obtaining the eggs Of
other fishes and impregnating them Il
the same as with the trout. but the
methods Of Matching diffcr very widely:
Some cggS-thoSe of the cod for
instance-will float. Shad eggs are so
nicely balanced that they will just keep
off the bottom in moving waterand sink
to 1t where the water Is still. Salmon
and trout eggs lio on the bottom, free
from each other. The eggs of the
smelt, white perch, herring and others,
cluster together in masses.
"Smelt cggs get themselves into great
masses in the Matching jars, become
. covered with black fungus, lots OF
them die and don't smell nice, and, ii
Z short they are exasperating.
WONDERS UNDER THE MICROSCOPE.
While giving this informati0f;-~th
result of much talk on both sides, Mr.
DIather courteously showed fish eggs
demonstrated how the currents IN the
troughs were controlled illustrated how
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bulk OF given number In glass, and
how fry were counted by sco0ping them
up on fiat. fan-iike net and guessing at
their number; snapped up startled little
fishes into a glass tube to show what
they looked like, and seized upon stray
caddis worm as subject for digrossive
remarks as to how much better-lo looking
he would be when he climbed out OF
his little reed house to become fly.
and how much trout would like him
In either stage of his existence
The several smelt eggs were de-
tached from the murky mass in one Of
the jars and laid In a crystal saucer i'm
few drops OF water. There they looked
like atoms OF the clearest glass. Under
the microscope the fish was clearly vis-
ible. The eyes were big and staring, and
the outlines OF head. body, and tail were
discernible. But when it is hatehed out
1t will be very large comparativcly-al
most as big as one OF the "wigglers7
from which develop the mosquito.
Having the microscope in hand, Mr..
Mather pops his test tube into another
jar and brings out a double-barrellcd
salmon for inspection. 1t has two heads,
two tails and one alb !ominal sac con-
Meeting two bodies. Agood many salmon
eggs develop such monstrosities. Some
times the freak consists of two tails and
one head, and again of two heads and
one tail. They all die just as soon us the
abdominal sac is absorbed.
SOME GOOD RESULTS.
Last year." said Mr.. Mather. Eve
hatched great many oysters in our salt
water ponds. The young oysters hatch
out in about five days and swim for two
or three days before they acquire steady
habits, leave of a rowing life and settle
down.
"We have hatched shad here, In spring
water, in jars. In the summer Of "a we
hatched 10000 and planted them in the
river at Smithtown. Whether they came
back the next season or not we do not
know. But il our young shad did not
return to Smithtown they went some
where else and somebody got the benefit
OF them. or will do SO.
We want to try Matching Spanish
mackerel eggs, Dut as Iney hatch in
twenty hours, it will be hard to get
them here from Virginia, where they
would have to be obtained, In time, 70
allow US to take proper care OF them.
TRANSPORTING THE YOUNG FISH.
"Any citizen Of New York State, who
has suitable waters to stock, can, upon
application, get whatever fish he re-
Iuires. il we have them to spare, free Of
charge except Incorporation and the fare
and keep of an expert man to take care
Of them in travelling, If the person or
Ierfng the fish wishes TO have that care
taken.
'.The young fish can be carried In our
cans, without change OF water, across
the continent or to Europe. Tt Is, how
;ver, necessary to aersite the water by
running ii OFF and on again through a
syphon, say every thirty minutes when
the cans nre still, and once an h0ur
when in motion OH a railroad. Four or
five thousand young salmon are sent IN
can. and where an expert goes along
to care for them he takes charge Of ten
or dozen cans.
"When the fish reach fl1eir destination
the mouth OF the can continuing them
IS lowered gently into tho water That Is
TO receive them, and they nTe l.t 20.
care being first taken, however. II ut the
temperatures of the water In tire c: n aud
that to which they arc going are about
even"
The experiment made BY New York