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FISH CARRIEES. 



After trying many forms of hand carriers for young 

 fish, I have come to the conchision that nothing can 

 IDOssihly be better than tliat depicted in the di^awing 

 below. 



It is a German invention, and the first I ever knew 

 about it was -from Lord Arthur Kussell, who brought 

 one over from Berhn, and kindly presented it to me. 

 It will be seen in the figure of the section that it has a 

 false bottom made of perforated zinc, below which is 

 a bent pipe traversing round inside the bottom of the 

 can. This pipe is perforated. To the outside end of the 



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FISH CAKBIEK. 



pipe is attached an india-rubber tube and ball a, e ; by 

 simply squeezing the ball, fresh air can easily be pumped 

 into the can in a continuous stream. If you have no 

 ball, a pair of bellows will do equally well. The advan- 



