THE SALMON OVA.

Evening Star, Issue 4090, 5 April 1876, Page 3

THE SALMON OVA.

Yesterday afternoon about five o’clock, the depositing of < the salmon ova in the hatching boxes at the Makarewa ponds, was completed by Mr Howard. He is of opinion that at a rough estimate about 10,000 of the ova ara alive. Within a fortnight, in all probability, they will be hatched. A curious discovery has been made with regard to the probable cause of the death of a large number of the ova. It has apparently been the turpentine in the wood from the deal boxes. The Curator anticipated this evil, and requested that the eva might not be sent in that way. Some of them have a decided smdl of turpentine, and on being treated first of all with alcohol, and afterwards with nitric acid, leave a translucent brown deposit which is to. all appearance resin. . In connection with the arrival of the ova, a correspondent of the ( Southland News ’ sends that journal the following jottings. He says“ On Monday last I sawapersem from Ballarat, who says Sir Samuel Wilson's thirty-one thousand ova placed in beds there are reduced by deaths to two thousand, and. that'those with DrWidicombe at Ballarat, originally numbering abont fourteen thousand, are reduced to about five hundred, while those .at Geelong are all dead. 1 examined some at the Melbourne ice-house with a strong hens, and found some at any Ate with fish in, but many ova are unimprttffltfSd; Those packed by Mr Ytinl and sent here, were shipped by M* Ramsbottom from the Bibh le, Hedder, and Severn ; these packed by Mr Buckland are from the ahd Part. .I‘ believe the temperature of-the Hrirater at .both Ercildoun and Bdllarat about 67d0g., quite sufficient to dccount for the Vurtoriaa failure.” '