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water, it has been my experience that you cannot g-et the water 

 too cold for an all-day shipment, but you can kill your troui: by 

 givinj;' them a sudden change. You can kill all of vour trout 

 very (juickly, and 1 think if we who raise trout c(nild i)lant them, 

 or have our experts plant them instead of having- Tom, Dick and 

 Harry receive them at the train and dump them, that in many 

 instances we would get nuich better results. Is there anything 

 further about the can? 



j\Ir. Wood: Xow, this next rigging is the last (Fig. 7). In 

 carrying a lot of trout and a lot of cans, as I said before, I w'ould 

 have a dipper, but I tind this arrangement is a great help, and 

 you can see how it works. We ])ut that tube with 

 one hole through the end into the can. If the hole is too 

 large, it doesn't work nicely, because all the air can 

 get out of one or two tubes ; when if the hole is small 

 it will act in this maimer, in the manner of a blow- pipe. We 

 put this tttbe in here, which will go, perhaps, six inches under the 

 water. If allowed to go too far down, sometimes the fish will 

 be thrown against it and injured. Wc put another one of these 

 tubes on this side of the pipe and put another can here, and we 

 can connect about a dozen cans in this manner to one blower; 

 and then, after we have once arranged the cans, all we have to 

 do is to keep our foot going, and you can keep trout alive with 

 this arrangement, the can perfectly still, for eighteen hours with- 

 out changing the water, as I have done with 200 fish four inches 

 long in one of these cans. Of course w-e had to do considerable 

 pumping along the last few hours. 



Mr. Ravenel: That was a hatching house experiment? 



Mr. Wood: Yes, sir. It is a great help when you have lots 

 of fish to carry. This blower works better than a bellows, be- 

 cause the rubber reservoir gives a constant stream of air. With 

 a pump it don't seem to work very well. I have worked these 

 cans in express cars when everything has been crowded up— 

 when we couldn't get between the cans: but had to climb over 

 the first cans to look at No. 12 up in the corner. I think that is 

 all, gentlemen. I have to say. I am sorry you are not coming to 



