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Mr. Ravenel: I will say, tor Mr. Wood's information, that 

 at a great many hatcheries, wliere they Iiave to count frv, they 

 do it by weight. They count out a thousand and put the fish in 

 the scales and weigh theiu, and then siniph go on repeating in 

 that wav, addinu' s>;) much water and so nian\- fish. 



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Mr. Wood: When we make a shipment of trout, sending 

 out 20 or 30 cans, we often have to turn out very early in the 

 morning, and 1 thought of something so we could get the trout 

 ready the day before. This does not look like much of a rigging 

 (Fig. 5), but I had to think over it for quite a while for all that. 

 It is better than a sijuare l)Ox for this reason : We put this in a 

 pool and count the fish in here, whatever number we want. 100 

 or 1,000. In the morning we have our cans ready, our express 

 team comes and we i)ull these out of the water and empty out 

 the fish. This pan holds some water, enough to lubricate the 

 fish, so to speak. The tin here keeps them from getting scraped 

 on the wire cloth. We take them out and ])our the fish into the 

 can, and suliicient water goes with them to prevent injury. 



!Mr. Clark : I *^ui)i)Ose that is for ship])ing just one or two 

 cans? 



