The age-herald., 1899-10-12
TROUT SPAWN FROM
 LAKE SUPERIOR.

Correspondence of the Chicago Record Marquette Mich. October u.-New York state lakes are being stocked with lake trout, which are matched from spawn secur- | ed in Lake Superior. Millions of eggs are
 annually taken from here to the fish hatch
 cries of the Empire state for propagation.
 Capt. S. M Rose of Charlevoix, Mich., is
 the agent of the New York fish commission
 in this work During the spawning season captain Rose makes his headquarters at | Marquette and has his force of men distrib-
 uted around along the shore at other ports,
 from which fish tugs ply. The captain Is
 now here and has just stationed his force for this season s work. His force consists
 of thirteen men this season, and between
 now and the 1st of November, the date
 when the closed season begins, he expects
 to secure between 1O,00 900 and 120 ,OOO lake
 trout eggs. The captain and one man are
 working out of Marquette; his other men
 are divided between Munising, Saulte Ste
 Marie Houghton, Keystone, Michipicoten,
 Caribou, Lizard Island and Brule harbor
 The four last named places are on the Ca nadlan shore.
 The way ahe eggs are secured, fertilzed, pdCheu anu SIlppeu lOTIlS dH luleTeSlliltr
 story Trout in Lake Superior begin to spawn soon after the 1st of October. At
 that time they seek the shallow waters
 that the female may find place to deposit
 her eggs and the male to fertilize them.
 Incidentally, 1t is this which gives the
 sportsman such good fishing on the lake
 shores this season of the year. The closed
 season for lake trout does not begin until
 tba let af Nau tba .h
 sioners of this and other states utilize the
 month of October for collecting the spawn
 they are to rear in their hatcheries, and
 at this season of the year nearly every fish tug on the lake is carrying the representa- tive of some fish commission.
 When the nets are drawn in and the live
 fish gathered into the boat the egg collector takes the female fish and sits them open along the under side and, by gentle press ure of his hand, strips the eggs from the fish into large cans filled with water. Lake trout very prolific in eggs and some times as many as a5,000 will be found in d single fish, though occasionally there will not be more than a Thousand secured. For the space of some three minutes after they are taken from the fish these eggs are sus- ceptfble to fertilization; if they have been in contact with the air more than three minutes without fertilization they are worthless. Fertilization Is accomplished by treating the male fish fin a somewhat sim liar fashion. All the trout caught are han died in this fashion, the fertllized eggs be ing kept in pails of water till the tug has | finished its days catch, reset its nets and | returned to port.
 At the fish house the egg collector care l fully removes the spawn from the pais and n1y -1an11 haxyt | tops, but bottomed with canton flannel. | These trays are set one on top of the other l in wooden packing cases The cases are two | feet long, eighteen inches high and twen- | ty inches wide; case will contain about | half a million eggs. From the time the eggt | are taken from the fish till they are deliv | cred at the hatchery they must be kept | constantly cool and moist They are usual | ly stored in the cooling rooms of the fish | houses and the top tray filled every day | with water which seeps down. keeping those | below,it moist also. The eggs very sen | sitive and if one is touched at all roughly | the life germ will be destroyed.
 The eggs are kept at the fishing stations | till the conclusion of the season, when they | are taken to the hatchery ito which they are destined Most of them go by boat, as | cars are apt to be too warm but when this | is not feasible, shipment by express is re- sorted to. In that case ice or snow Is pack | ed in the ends of the cases, and when the l latter is obtainable it is poured over the top tray of eggs; the heat of the car gradu- ally melts the snow and it dripS down as water from one tray to another, keeping all 1 the eggs moist
 Last year Captain Rose was able to take l his eggs straight through from Marquette | to Buffalo by boat, but this year he will | be obliged to make part of the journey by | rail. as his stations on the Canadian shore ob1ige him to make Sault Ste. Marie the | point of collection From there he will | take the spawn by boat direct to Buffalo, where it will be met by the New York fish l car and transported to the hatcheries The l principal hatchery is at Caledonia, about | sixty miles out of Buffalo The eggs will l be taken there first and then apport1oned among the other hateheries of the state. When matched a portion of the Try VIII | he planted in Lakes Erie and Ontario, but New York has number of large inland | lakes which will also receive their quota | of the young fish. Artificial propagation | is doing a great deal in New York, as in 1 Michigan, to keep up the supplies ot tood | and game fishes, and scientific methods have brought fish culture to point where | if approximates perfection. Experts in tn 1 branch say that in nature only per cent' | of rhe>spawn ever hatch, while, with ene- | mics and unfavorable. conditions, it is far smaller per cent which reaches maturity. | Tn artificial propagation, where the eggs | have been properly fertilized, 90 per cent | will hatch and when planted the artihclally | reared fry have equal chances Tor Nle anu | growth with those of natural birth
 RUr THE RESIDUE WILL BE ASHES | From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
 The Orange Free State has begun to