732 U. S. BUREAU OF FISHERIES 
CAR NO. 3 
[E. R. WipmMyer, Captain] 
During July two carloads of trout were moved from the Manchester (Iowa! 
station to cooperative ponds at Eyota, St. Charles, Winona, Lewiston, and 
Plainview, Minn. Upon completion of the trout distribution to cooperative 
stations the car was returned to La Crosse, Wis. 
The distribution from the rescue stations was begun on August 9, when a car- 
load of warm-water species was delivered to applicants in Illinois and Indiana. 
During the season of rescue operations four car trips were made from the upper 
Mississippi River stations, delivering to applicants 4,750 catfish, 42,100 black 
bass, 490 bream, 15,750 crappie, and 15,910 yellow perch. The distribution from 
the rescue stations was brought to a close unusually early in the fall due to high 
water, which allowed the fish to pass from the landlocked sloughs into the river. 
After the distribution season closed, the crew was sent to fish-cultural stations 
for the winter, the car being held on the tracks of the Chicago, Milwaukee & 
St. Paul Railway at La Crosse until January 16, when it was moved to the Mil- 
waukee (Wis.) shops for repairs. Subsequently the car returned to La Crosse, 
where the crew was reassembled and the equipment placed in readiness for the 
coming season. 
The trout distribution was begun on April 30 and extended to May 24, at 
which time the car left for Duluth, Minn. From April 30 to May 24 the car and 
its messengers delivered to applicants and cooperative stations approximately 
seven carloads of trout from the La Crosse station. 
The car arrived at Duluth on May 25 and immediately took up the distribution 
from that station. From May 28 to June 16 approximately nine carloads of 
fish were delivered, including 8,100,000 lake trout, 11,500,000 pike perch, and 
200,000 brook trout. Heretofore it has been thought inadvisable to transport 
pike perch and whitefish in Fearnow pails, but an experiment along this line was 
carried out with the best of success when 109 pails of pike-perch fry, each con- 
taining 50,000 fish, were carried from Duluth, Minn., to Crystal Falls, Mich., 
the fish reaching the applicants in excellent condition. On completion of the 
Duluth distribution the car was ordered to La Crosse to finish the distribution 
of trout from that station. ” 
During the fiscal year 1927 the car traveled 9,417 miles and distributed 21,049,- 
400 fish. The table below shows the number and size of the species delivered 
during the year: 







Species | Fry Fingerlings | Yearlings 
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ochaLeven trout: 25 32. 8250s en i A ee CO eee 127, 800))| soa eee 
akeytroutroves-scie 3. SEL eae eee ORL: tae 8, 100, 000 | 270, (000':| 22: ae 
IBEQOKSGROU tins oe Ses. oc oe. SENET! Eee RON Of eae Ae tone RCE US| 2 ee eer | 839,700; |= == es 
Crappie’ se ie ee ee te ee ik lg es a eet Ee RL 15} @p0 4 eee ee 
harpemouthiblack bass 4 Bo sel ee is Se ae rad Pee pan Fee ee Cas | 42: 100f | eee 
Iv. 20s ae Pa ies Sei Ts RUON 2F ENE OES Ay ty ee [bays WERE ON | 150 340 
Lead (eh Oft1 (Cle el Se ee ae eS A eee 51d DO EN Sh REE SY | 0'1,'500,10001|2 222 222 Dees Pee ee 
SOLOW ADELCH eae a 9 eee Da Cee eee fe Sh | oe ee 15,910) tees see 
CO 2) es Se a eS Wine Sarre, 8 to’ S01 ony Se 2a Pee eS 19, 600, 000 | 1, 449, 060 | 340 
CAR NO. 4 
[F. W. A. ENGELHARDT, Acting Captain] 
At the beginning of the fiscal year a number of detached-messenger shipments 
of smallmouth black bass and brook trout were made from Nashua, N. H., to 
points in New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York. On July 27 the car left 
Nashua with a load of trout for distribution in Pennsylvania, proceeding thence 
to Washington, D. C., to take up the bass distribution from the Lakeland (Md.) 
station. On account of the unusually warm weather the Lakeland distribution 
was postponed to be taken up in the fall and the messengers were detailed to the 
central office for duty. The car left Washington on September 8 to assist in 
the distribution of fish from the Upper Mississippi River collecting stations. 
Owing to excessive rains during the spring and summer the Mississippi River 

