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TRANSPORTING LIVE FISH. Many expensive tanks 

 have been constructed for transporting fish alive, answer- 

 ing the purpose more or less perfectly. We give here a 

 simple and inexpensive method: Take a barrel or cask, 

 washed until it is clean and sweet. Fit a cover to it 

 tightly to prevent the water splashing over while on the 

 cars or wagon. A piece of canvass tied over the top, 

 answers every purpose. A hole one inch in diameter 

 may be made in the middle of the cover. Fill with 

 water within six inches of the top, as the agitation of 

 the water on the journey helps to aerate it. Tie some 

 ice in a piece of flannel and fasten it to the side of the 

 cask near the top so that it shall not swing about and 

 bruise the fish, and the cold drip from the ice will sink 

 to the bottom. If the journey is to be a prolonged one, 

 fit the nozzle of a common bellows with a tin tube long 

 enough to reach to the bottom of the cask, and by blow- 

 ing a little now and then the fish can be carried thous- 

 ands of miles. We do not give this as the best plan, 

 but as a cheap and inexpensive method answering a 

 very good purpose. The best apparatus would be a 

 metal tank of some kind with double walls, permanent 

 ice chamber in the middle, and automatic air-pump. 



Young whitefish are in condition to transport from 

 the first to the tenth of February ; salmon trout from 

 the tenth to the thirtieth; brook trout from February 

 twentieth to April fifteenth and should be put in the 

 small spring rivulets one and two feet wide, that supply 

 the main stream. No man, while transporting fish, 

 should go to sleep and allow them to be left alone while 

 in the cans, as it will be sure death to them. A man 

 may think he knows all about carrying fish, because he 

 has carried a few minnows in a pail for fishing ; but he 

 will fail sure if he does not follow the directions to the 



