The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1886-09-10

ssThe manner OF obtaining the eggs OF
other fishes and impreguating them Is
thesame as with the trout, out the
methods Of Matching differ very widely
- some eprs-thuse OF the cod, Tor
insfance-wiu float. Shad eggs are 20
nicely balanced that they viii just heep
of the bottom I'm moving water ana ~illA
TO il where the water is still Salnioh
and trout eggs lie on the bottom, re
from each other. The eggs OF the
smelt, white perch, herring, ana otAeI7i
cluster together il masses.
sSmelt eggs get themselves Into great
masses in the Matching Jars, become
covered with q black fungus lots OF
them die and don't smell nice, and, In
short, they are exasperatiug.
WONDERS UNDER THE MICROSCOPE
While giving this information, the
result Of much talk on both sides, Mr.
Mather cOurteously showed hsh eggs
demonstrated how the currents In the
trouChs were controlled illustrated how
eggs were counted by measuring the
bulk Of given number In glass, ana
how fry We're counted by scOopinE them
mp on a fat. fan-like net and guessing az
their number. snapped up startled little
fishes into a glass tube 70 show what
they looked like, and seized upon stray
caddis worm as a subject for aggressive
remarks as TO how much hetter-looking
he would be when he climbed out OF
MS AlLLle EeE-l house 70 hClAAAAN q ~
and how much a trout would Ike nm
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 crystal saucer IN
few drops OF water. There they looked
like atoms OF the clearest glass. Under
the microscope the FISH was clearly VS.
ible. The ewes were big and staring, and
the outlines Of head, body. and tall were
dfscernihle. But when it is hatched out
il will be very large vely-al-
most as big as one Of the "wiggleTs
f from which develop the mosquito.
Having the microscope in hand, MI.
I Nather pops his test tube into another
lar and brings out a double-barrelled
+ salmon for inspection. Il has two heads,
. two tails. and one abdominal sac con
Meeting two bodies A good many salmon
I 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 as the
abdominal sac is absorbed
SOME GOOD RESULTS.
Last year" said Nj. Mather, I'VE
hatched a great many oysters IN our SAL
water ponds The young oysters hatcf
out in about five days and swim Tor two
or three days before they acquire steady
habits, leave Of rowing lie ana settle
down.
z L
water In Jars. In the summer OF "a ",
hatched So 900 and planted them in tn
river at Smithtown. Whether they cam'
back the next season or not we do no
know But if our young shad did no
return to Smithtown they went some
where else and somebody got the bene4i
OF them, or viii do So
We want TO try Matching Spanisl
. + mackerel eggs. but as they hatch d
? twenty-fOur hours, il viii be hard 70 &c
F them here from Virginia, where the
would have to be obtained in time. {
allow Us to take proper care OF them.
g TRANSPORTING TIE YOUNG FISH.
b d" Anv citizen Of New York State, wh
has suitable waters TO stock. can, upO
application, get whatever fish he n
s uuires. if we have them 70 spare, free {
b charge except tran- -poration and the tal
r and keep of an expert man 10 take cal
i of them in travelling, II the person o
q dering the fish wishes 70 have that cal
u taken.
-, The young fish can he carried In CJ
u cans. without change 0t water, aero:
l. the continent or to Europe II IS, hOy
l. ever. necessary TO aHTarr the water I
-I running II of and on EEaiu through
IS svrhon. say every thirty minutes. who
l the cans are stIll, and once an mol
= when in motion on a rail. nal- -Four
IL five Thousand Young SG.-l.'' are sent
-f n can and where an eETluIr goes al0I
At to care for thcn lac takes charge of q
III or q dozen cans
s.. "Wh-r tire fish reach their la--i01ti,
le o.. -rU rrrr-. ..a
2 Is lowered gently into the water tha'
IN to receive them. and they are let
r. care being first taken, however, that
2n temperature Of the water in the can 6
le that 10 which they are going are ab,
~ even
sn The experiment made by New Y,
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