THE TROUT OVA.

North Otago Times, Volume XI, Issue 348, 22 September 1868, Page 3

THE TROUT OVA.

The following extract from the report of Mr Clifford, who has recently returned from a trip to Tasmania, bringing trout ova for the Acclimatisation Society, will be read with interest : — On presenting your application to the salmon commissioners, they gave orders for mo to have the ova ; but were unable to give any live trout, as there were nouo but what were too laigo to travel. Tho ship was to have sailed on the 1st September, and on that day I had the ova on board, and also placed tho ova for the Canterbury Society on board the Southern Cross. It wns not till the 5th that tho Free Trader started, during- which time my case was exposed to tho weather, which was very warm. Happily, by a plentiful suj ply of frozen snow, and by keeping the blankets on the outside of the case wet, I was able to keep down the temperature. Soon after we started we got into cold weather ; and, after a rather lough run of oigho days, reached Otago Heads at eleven o'clock on Sunday night. The pilot-boat came to the ship to take the ova up to town. We started about nine a m , reached Pelichet Bay Jetty by three p.m., and by eight I had the ova in the ripple boxes. On opening the boxes, I found the moss green and damp, and the ova, which I had spread ver}' thinly, looking in good condition, the bad being very few. The number given to me at the Plenty was eight hundred, the dead eggs I picked ouh when I unpacked being forty-nine. The snow was obtained from Mount Wellington, and lasted woll. I also brought twenty-four English perch, a quantity of water snails, and water plants, presented by Mr Morton Allport. Of the perch I landed twenty-one. I snipped four cans of tadpoles and nine gamefowls ; but of these I cannot report, as I have not yet received them from tho ship. I fear I have lost some of the tadpoles from salt water getting to them. Tho fowls I left on board alive.