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FISH CARKIERS. 



After trying many forms of liand carriers for young 

 fish, I have come to the conckision that nothing can 

 possibly be better than that depicted in the di'awing 

 below. 



It is a German invention, and the first I ever knew 

 about it was from Lord Arthur Eussell, who brought 

 one over from Berlin, and kindly presented it to me. 

 It will be seen in the figure of the section that it has a 

 false bottom made of perforated zinc, below which is 

 a bent pipe traversing round inside the bottom of the 

 can. This pipe is perforated. To the outside end of the 



FISH CAKRIEK. 



pipe is attached an india-rubber tube and ball a, b ; by 

 simply squeezing the ball, fresh air can easily be j^umped 

 into the can in a continuous stream. If you have no 

 ball, a pair of bellows will do equally well. The advan- 



