Chapter XIX. 

 TRANSPORTATION OF FISH. 



The vessel best adapted for the shipment of live fish, to any 

 reasonable distance in this country, is a tin can, clad with wood. 



The shipping can should be perfectly smooth upon the inside, so 

 that the fish will be subjected to the least percentage of injury while 

 ?n roide. At the upper end the can should taper off, forming a kind 

 of neck or shoulder, similar to that seen 

 upon the common coal-oil can. This makes 

 it easy for the contents to slide out when 

 the vessel is to be emptied. The opening at 

 the top is five (5) inches in diameter, and 

 closed with a perforated lid that is fitted in 

 like the top to a milk can. The perforations 

 consist of half a dozen one-half (^) inch 

 holes, punched through from the under side 

 of the lid, thus leaving the sharp rim of the 

 holes on the outside where they can do no 

 injury to the fish within the vessel. (See 

 illustration.) shipping Ca\. 



Those cans very extensively used in the coal oil trade, and usually 

 designated "wooden jacket cans," are about the very best thing 

 that could be invented for our purpose. 



As the Express Companies demand that tin vessels be protected in 

 some manner or other with wood, we find in these vessels the 



