172 Fish and Game Warden. [Bull. No. 1. 



FISH CAR "ANGLER No. 1." 



Before the fish car "Angler No. 1" starts for your particular 

 locality with a load of fish you will receive a notification that 

 will read something like the following : 



KANSAS STATE FISH HATCHERY, PRATT, KAN. 



Dear Sir — The Kansas State Fish Car will pass through your locality 

 in the near future for the purpose of distributing fish. Parties who 

 expect fish should meet the train at station designated, with clean barrels, 

 milk cans or some vessel in which live fish can be carried. The vessels 

 should be about one-fourth full of pure fresh water. Fish should be 

 taken to streams or ponds as quickly as possible. When long drives are 

 to be made, a large dipper should be carried, to be used in lifting the 

 water from the cans and pouring it back. By holding the dipper two or 

 three feet above the can, a good supply of small air bubbles can be carried 

 into the water for the fish to breathe. Ten gallons of water will serve 

 100 small fish from three to six hours when thus aerated. 



The fish car will be the last or end car on the train. Please locate, 

 with your cans, at the station as nearly as possible where the last or end 

 car would naturally stand when the train stops. Do not wait at the 

 station until the train pulls in and then make a grand rush for the last 

 car, dragging the can at breakneck speed, spilling the water, getting 

 out of breath and upsetting your natural good humor. We will write you 

 later exact date and train to meet. If anything should happen to inter- 

 fere with train program after we start, we will telegraph the ticket agent 

 at your station of the change and give the exact date and time of train 

 to meet. 



Do not cover the cans that contain fish with anything heavier than one 

 thickness of cheesecloth or burlap. Fish must have air and can not live 

 in water that does not have small bubbles of air in it. 



It is the purpose of the Department of Game and Fish to furnish 

 brood-stock fish enough to properly stock streams and ponds. The fish 

 when young must be protected and allowed to grow until large enough to 

 spawn. In other words, we furnish the fish for brood-stock purposes, 

 but you must raise the crop. It requires about 100 small fish, or from 

 20 to 50 large ones, to the acre to properly stock a pond. The number of 

 fish that a pond will support depends largely upon the condition of the 

 water, and especially upon the food supply. L. L. Dyche, 



State Fish and Game Warden. 



After the above notice has been received and read, and you 

 get your mind in proper condition for receiving a consignment 

 of fish, you will receive a card which will read something like 

 the following: 



FISH AND GAME DEPARTMENT, PRATT, KAN. 



The fish car is coming to. 



(Name of station.) (Date.) 



(Name of railroad.) (Train No.) (Time of arrival of train.) 



It will be the last or end car on the train. Meet it at above mentioned 

 station, as per letter of instructions already sent. Locate, with cans one- 

 fourth full of water, back far enough to be opposite the last car when it 

 stops. Be on time, and at the right place, as the car only stops a few 

 minutes at each station. L. L. Dyche, 



state Fish and Oame Warden. 



This card must be presented at the car door to obtain fish. 



