PROPAGATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF FOOD FISHES, 1923. 101 



CAR NO. 9. 



[A. II. KicRTH, Captain.] 



Car Xo. made 17 trips during the fiscal year 1923, covering a 

 total distance of 18,275 miles, and supplying 1,076 applicants in the 

 Middle Western, Southwestern, Eastern, and Southeastern States. 

 The numl>ers and species of fish delivered during the year are as 

 f olloAvs : 



Catfish : Number. 



Fingerlings 33, 100 



Yearling-s 1, 200 



Buffalofish, fingeiiings 150 



Carp, fingerlings , 230 



Rainbow trout, fingerlings 84,000 



Brook trout, fingerlings 528,600 



Pike and pickerel, adults 160 



Crappie : 



Fingerlings 625 



Yearlings 1, 135 



Adults 54 



Largemouth black bass: 



Fingerlings 52, 195 



Adults 160 



Sniallnioutli black bass, fingerlings 8,775 



Warmoutli bass, fingerlings 80 



.Sunfish : •' 



Fingerlings 9, 790 



Yearlings 5, 240 



Pike perch, fry 2,100,000 



Yellow perch, fingerlings 3, 250 



Crappie and bream, yearlings (carload shipment) 9,000 



Miscellaneous, assorted size.s. specimens 740 



Total 2, 838, 484 



Xo extensive repairs have been made to car Xo. 9 during the past 

 year: neither has it been equipped with the Fearnow aluminum 

 transportation pails (for description see IT. S. Bureau of Fisheries 

 Doc. 911, pp. 90-98). but a number of these pails are to be forwarded 

 in the near future. 



A new style aerator for use by messengers when carrying fish on 

 detached shipments has been furnished by the Washington office (see 

 description, p. 102) and has proven very satisfactory. 



An aerating device of the jetting design has also given quite satis- 

 factory results. 



The total number of miles traveled by the car during the fiscal 

 year was 18,275. 



NEW EQUIPMENT FOR USE IN SHIPPING LIVE FISH. 



ELECTRIC AIR COMPRESSOR. 



During the spring of 1923 there was installed on fisheries cai- No. 

 8 an air compressor operated by a one-half horsepower electrically 

 driven motor, connected with the storage batteries used for lighting 

 the car. The entire outfit is only 28 inches long, 18 inches wide, and 

 2 feet in height, and is placed on a shelf in the boiler room. This 

 device has been used successfully on a number of occasions for fur- 

 nishing compressed air for aeration of the water in the fish contain- 



