Duchesne Record | 1913-06-27 | Page 7 | Hens That Hatch Fish

HENS THAT HATCH FISH As is generally known a big quantity ty of fish spawn Is annually lost To avoid this fish In China carefully carefully carefully care care- fully collect spawn from the surface of the water and when they hav have se secured J cure cured a sufficient quantity they take tale a a. number of hens' hens eggs the contents of r which have been carefully emptied through a D. a small aperture aperture- and refill the shells with the spawn The holes are then sealed scaled up and the eggs put under broody hens Tho The hens are allowed to Incubate the eggs for tor fora a certain number of ot days when the eggs are again broken and their contents put Into water that has been previously warm warmed d by the sun sun In a very short space of time the spawn hatches and the young fry are then kept ept In pure fresh tresh water until they attain a sufficient size to tobe tobe tobe be put Into the ponds containing older older older old old- er fish The Chinese have long understood understood understood under under- stood all the Intricacies of InC Incubation and were amongst the first to t use Incubators Incubators incubators In In- for the hatching of hens' hens before such machines were eggs long made in this country At one time tUne a considerable business was done In Inthis Inthis inthis this style of at spawn hatching Week Week Weekly ly Scotchman