64 Tiventy-ninth Annual Meeting 



Plymouth, but you will see, perhaps, some of these arrangements^ 

 at Mr. Hurlburt's. 



Mr. Davis: I would like to ask Mr. Wood if it isn't a fact 

 that ice will take largely the place of air in your cans? 



Mr. Wood: It would by lowering the temperature of the 

 water. 



Air. Davis : Wouldn't it be better for the trout, rather thair 

 to let the temperature rise, to use ice and not your pump? 



Mr. Wood : I don't think so. 



Mr. Davis: I understand you don't use the blower if you 

 use ice? 



Mr. Wood: Yes, we do. I never get the temperature o£ 

 the water any lower than I think is absolutely necessary, and 

 that is perhaps about 47 or 48. 



•Mr. Davis: Don't carry them any lower? 



Mr. Wood: No, sir. 



Mr. Davis: I have great faith in ice. Some two years ago 

 we went out bass fishing on the Kalamazoo river. At the little 

 place near where we caught our fish we couldn't get any ice. 

 We loaded the fish into barrels and did what we could on the 

 way. Before we arrived at Kalamazoo, where the ice was, every 

 black bass was at the top of the barrel on his back, and we had 

 men with pails and dippers changing the water. We had tele- 

 graphed ahead for ice, and the moment we began using it the 

 fish began to recover. We put in a piece as big as a pail. The 

 fish had been carried in water of probably 75 degrees. We kept 

 a big chunk of ice in the barrels until we reached Grand Rapids,, 

 and the fish all revived soon after we put the ice in. 



Mr. Wood: That was bass. I am speaking only about 

 trout. I never carried any other fish, but I should think, every- 

 thing considered, that it was best in most cases to keep the water 

 about the same temperature that the fish have been living in, and 

 I do it to prevent the sudden changes which, if we arrive at night, 

 might be almost impossible to prevent when putting the fish out{: 

 but if everything else failed, I would not hesitate to put ice in,. 

 even if we got the temperature very low. 



