With fly-rod and camera . ined planeof logs over which they slide until they are safe fromthe waves, which are here often of great size. NearRosss house is a very large cold spring, in which theNova Scotia Fish Commissioners keep the salmon alivethat are caught for breeding purposes until the spawn isready for stripping. Some idea of the value of the Marg^aree as a sal-mon river may be had when I state that in addition tothe vast number of fish that are speared, netted and kill-ed in other ways, in a few pools in the neighborhood ofthis spring alone, there are caught and confined in it fromthr
With fly-rod and camera . ined planeof logs over which they slide until they are safe fromthe waves, which are here often of great size. NearRosss house is a very large cold spring, in which theNova Scotia Fish Commissioners keep the salmon alivethat are caught for breeding purposes until the spawn isready for stripping. Some idea of the value of the Marg^aree as a sal-mon river may be had when I state that in addition tothe vast number of fish that are speared, netted and kill-ed in other ways, in a few pools in the neighborhood ofthis spring alone, there are caught and confined in it fromthree to five hundred large salmon every fall. These fishare netted in the river near by, the Government payingone dollar for each live fish to the captors. About the loth of November the work of takingand fertilizinof the eQ-ors is beg^un. The esfors and milt aretaken from the fish and stirred together in a pan. Thefertile eggs become reddish and almost as hard as peas,while the infertile are white or of a pale fiesh ,:.- i^ ? f 1 k W^ Rv . ^ >, RV.,: ^1 28o IVitJi Fly-Rod and Camera. \ ? For removal to the Government hatchery at Syd-ney the eggs are packed in wooden boxes about fifteeninches square, in moss and cotton wool. There is firstdeposited at the bottom of the box a layer of wet moss;upon this is laid a stratum of cotton wool, among whichthe esigs are packed. Upon this is placed another layerof damp, almost wet moss, and another of the cotton withits quota of eggs, and upon this another layer of this third layer is placed a partition of wire net-ting, or other porous material, the object being to securethe eggs from too great pressure, and upon this partitionare placed another three layers of moss, cotton and fry hatch about the last of April or first of May,and all the time between the period of their extrusionfrom the parent fish until they are hatched, the eggs re-quire constant and most intelligent attention. When thefry are about five w
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