. The food and game fishes of New York: . running water, many deposit their eggs during thenight. The eggs are \,\r, of an inch in diameter and very glutinous, sticking togetherin masses of various sizes. The average number to a fish is 500,000. March 6, 1897,a fish that weighed 3^ pounds after spawning furnished 30 fluid ounces of eggs,numbering 1,462,000. The eggs hatch in 17 or 18 days, when the mean water tem-perature is 37° or 38° F. IE 0 07. ALBANY J. B. LYON COMPANY, PRINTERS 1903

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