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making a shipment of trout from that point to Eau Claire, Wis., it 

 proceeded to Duluth to take up the season's distribution of whitefish, 

 pike perch, and trout from the Duluth station. This work was in 

 progress from April 26 to June 20 and included the shipment 1,100,000 

 whitefish, 13,000,000 pike perch, and 10,848,500 lake trout, all in the 

 fry stage, as well as 189,000 fingerling brook trout and 29,000 steel- 

 head-salmon fingerlings. 



In moving truckloads of fish from the hatchery to the railroad 

 station and boat wharves care was taken to avoid carrying only partial 

 loads, and the shipment of the fish was so planned that in transporting 

 several species to a given section the work might be accomplished, 

 without duplication of trips except in cases where very heavy con- 

 signments were to be delivered. One messenger carried 60 pails of 

 brook trout in a single baggage-car shipment. The very successful 

 and economical results attained in this distribution work were made 

 possible in large measure by the close cooperation afforded by the 

 Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul and the Minneapolis, St. Paul & 

 Sault Ste. Marie Railway Cos. 



During the fiscal year ended June 30, 1925, Car No. 3 traveled 

 11,742 miles and delivered 25,166,500 fish. 



CAR NO. 4 



[James L. Gardner, Acting captain] 



At the opening of the fiscal year Car No. 4 was engaged in the 

 shipment of blacK bass from the Lakeland (Md.) ponds, and during 

 the first week in July it distributed from these ponds 12,200 fingerling 

 fish. On July 7 the car was ordered to the Wliite Sulphur Springs 

 (W. Ya.) station to make carload shipments of trout to Elkins, W. 

 Ya., and Williamsport, Pa. On the completion of this work it pro- 

 ceeded to La Crosse, Wis., to assist in the distribution of miscellaneous 

 river fishes from the upper Mississippi River rescue stations. In 

 connection with this work the car made trips to Watersmeet, Mich., 

 Green Bay, Wis., Fort Wayne, Ind., and Harrisburg, Pa., ^returning 

 from the latter point to Washington, D. C. In its work in the rescue 

 field the car transported 87,745 fingerling and adult fish. 



During October the car distributed from the Lakeland (Md.) ponds 

 46,420 miscellaneous pondfishes ranging in size from fingerlings to 

 adults, and from the White Sulphur Springs (W. Va.), station it 

 distributed 31,000 brook and Loch Leven trout. During the months 

 of November and December it was stationed at Washington, D. C, 

 where it was used as living quarters for the car-service employees on 

 <letail in the Washington office of the bureau. 



On January 6 the car was taken to the plant of the American Car 

 & Foundry Co. at Wilmington, Del., for annual repairs. On the 

 completion of this work, late in January, it returned to Washington 

 and was again used as living quarters for its crew until the middle of 

 March, when it proceeded to Wythe ville, Va., and received a load of 

 150,250 fingerling trout. Returning on March 26 to Washington, the 

 car made plants of fish en route and by messenger shipments on its 

 arrival there. Soon afterward it left for Erwin, Tenn., and took up 

 the distribution from the hatchery at that point, making nine carload 

 trips and a number of detached messenger shipments and carrying 

 a total of 532,727 trout, bass, and bream for delivery to applicants in 



