Report of the Commissioner for the year ending June 30, 1899 . Fig. 10. Fig. 11. Fig. 12. DEVELOPMENT OF SALMON EGGS FROM TWO DAYS OLD TO THIRTY DAYS AT 54° F. Fig. 1. Appearance of egg two days after fertilization, and while it can be handled. Fig. 2. Egg at four days, when it can be picked over but must be handled with extreme care. Fig. 3. Egg at six days, when it should not he touched. Figs. I. 5, 6, 7, and 8. Egg on the seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth days, when it is very tender and can not stand 9. Egg at eleven days, when it can be handled but with extreme 10

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Report of the Commissioner for the year ending June 30, 1899 . Fig. 10. Fig. 11. Fig. 12. DEVELOPMENT OF SALMON EGGS FROM TWO DAYS OLD TO THIRTY DAYS AT 54° F. Fig. 1. Appearance of egg two days after fertilization, and while it can be handled. Fig. 2. Egg at four days, when it can be picked over but must be handled with extreme care. Fig. 3. Egg at six days, when it should not he touched. Figs. I. 5, 6, 7, and 8. Egg on the seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth days, when it is very tender and can not stand 9. Egg at eleven days, when it can be handled but with extreme 10, 11. and 12. Egg at fourteen, twenty, and thirty days, when very hardy. After the loop, shown in figs. (>. 7, and 8, has closed and all trace of it disappeared, as in tig:. 9, theegg can be picked over, and from that time on it grows constantly more hardy and can be shipped. (Drawings by Leroy Ledgerwood.) REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. XCVII them the first two or three times. When the troughs are first uncov-ered the eggs are found burie

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