106 FISH CULTURE 



tools and implements specially needed for 

 hatchery work are an assortment of buckets, 

 both wooden and tin, for carrying water, fish, 

 thick milk, chopped meat, and so forth; also 

 washtubs for carrying large fish from one pond 

 to another, for holding spawning fish when first 

 taken from the raceways or ponds, and for 

 many other purposes. 



I have found that the ordinary milk can with 

 a round hole, about the size of a quarter of a 

 dollar, will answer as well for shipping fish by 

 railroad as any specially designed shipping- 

 can. It would be well, however, to have 

 the bottom changed to a convex form, as when 

 the bottom is concave trout are apt to crowd 

 into the centre, sometimes to their detriment. 

 A long narrow can, similar to what is generally 

 known as the combination Philadelphia and 

 New York pattern, seems to be better than one 

 short in height but large in circumference. It 

 has the advantage of taking up less room in a 

 car, which fact will appeal to any one who has 

 many fish to send away by railroad. Cans con- 

 taining twenty and thirty quarts each are the 

 most desirable in size. For transporting 



