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can it will on\\ lower tlu' Iciiipcraturc for tlK- tiiiK' hcinj;. If you 

 wish to put a piece of ice iu. take a piece up occasionally and put 

 it in. then if wc g^et an ailditional supi)l\ at a station, it is put in 

 around the -top and we .t^'et the benefit of the ice as it melts, be- 

 cause all that melts helps keep the water cool. I'esides it is verv 

 handy, and although (jne piece of ice may not injure the fish, yet 

 by putting- in a whole lot of ice at first and puttinj.^ them on a truck 

 and carryin,^- them to the depot, some of the fish are liable to get 

 hurt, if in the best jxissible conditi(Mi. 



In regard to the transportation of trout, it is of course to 

 our interest to carry as many as we can, even if the customer 

 pays for transportation, for it costs him enough in any event. I 

 have recentl}- been with trout fry for twenty-four hours, giving 

 them constant attention, and I would say that the labor required 

 depends much on the number of fish you have in a can. While on 

 some of my trips I frecpiently meet many of the (iovernment 

 or State officials, and I must say that these gentlemen always 

 care for their fish with about one-quarter the attention that I find 

 mine require. 



Mr. Clark: 1 am afraid people will infer from what has been 

 said that we pitch a half a ton of ice into a single can. We simply 

 give a can of fish the necessary amount of ice to keep the tempera- 

 ture down to the desired point ; the rest of the ice is taken care 

 of in extra cans, but we do not fill the cans containing fish solid 

 with ice; simpl\- use what is necessary. 



The President : You will excuse the Chair for saying any 

 more on this subject, but my line is trout work. The same idea 

 that he obtained is what I brought up about this round shoulder 

 can, about using the inverted cover. If you have to save ice there 

 is a drip from that cover into the water, and I have an idea it 

 will act as an aerator. Of course, we carry other fish than brook 

 trout, but if vou take the rainbow trout you can't have them so 

 cold, and if you take the steelhead trout, you can't have them so 

 cold. A lake trour will stand just about as nuich ice as a brook 

 trout, won't thev? I like the idea of using some can with a cover 



