TRANSPORTATION OF LIVE FISH. 



Many expensive tanks have been constructed for transporting fish 

 alive, answering the purpose more or less perfectly. We give here a 

 simple and inexpensive method : Take a barrel or cask, washed until it 

 is clean and sweet. Fit a cover to it tightly to prevent the water splash- 

 ing over while in the cars or wagon. A piece of canvass tied over the 

 top, answers every purpose. A hole one inch in diameter may be made 

 in the middle of the cover. Fill with water within six incbes of the 

 top, as the agitation of the water on the journey helps to aerate it. Tie 

 some ice in a piece of flannel and fiisten it to the side of the cask near 

 the top so that it shall not swing about and bruise the fish, and the cold 

 drip from the ice will sink to the bottom. If the journey is to be a pro- 

 longed one, fit the nozzle of a common bellows with a tin tube 

 long enough to reach to the bottom of the cask, and by blowing a little 

 now and then the fish can be carried thousands of miles. We do not 

 give this as the best plan, but as a cheap and inexpensive method an- 

 swering a very good purpose. The best apparatus would be a metal 

 tank of some kind with double walls, permanent ice chamber in the 

 middle, and automatic air-pump. 



