.lincncan I'islicrics Society. (;5 



]\Ir. O'Mallov: I woukl like to ask .Mr. Wood — yon spoke 

 of keeping fish alive eighteen honrs — did yon nse ice at the same 

 time? 



Mr. Wood : Yes. to keep the water at an even temperature. 



The T^-esident: Abont what temperattne? 



Mr. Wood: About 47 or 48. 



The President: If you liad that can aboard a bai^gage car 

 and people smoking- cigars, etc., around there, and pumping that 

 air into those fish, do you think it would be as good for them as 

 to keep the water at a nnich lower temperature with ice? 



Mr. Wood: I have never seen any ill effects, and then 1 

 always think the air at the bottom of the cars is better than at 

 the height we are breathing; better than anyone would think un- 

 less they got down and tried it. 



The PVesident: Are there any further questions? Have 

 you any cuts of any of these? 



Mr. Wood: I have a cut of the can and little feeder. I 

 have no cuts of the other apparatus, but intend to have them. 



The President: So that we could use them in illustrating. 



Mr. W^ood : I would be pleased to supply them to } on. 



The President: I want to say a word about transportation. 

 W"e have different methods in \'ermont. We have the old- 

 fashioned can, that is al)out as large as this, and then comes up 

 narrower and opens up in the top, with a strainer in it. It takes 

 up a good deal of room and is clumsy. Then we have the ordi- 

 nary lo-gallon round-shouldered can for shipments of from 3 to 

 10 hours. We get along very nicely with that if we send a mes- 

 senger. After we have cooled the water in the can we invert 

 the cover and fill the cover with ice. and we find that with the 

 ordinary swashing on the baggage cars that the little piece of ice 

 in the cover on top is about all that is necessary, and we don't 

 work over the fish at all unless they stand at the station fifteen 

 or twenty minutes. We keep our temperature right down, any- 

 where from 34 to 36 degrees. 



Mr. Wood: Your shipments do not require fish to be kept 

 so very long in the can. 



