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road, the most convenient plan is to have round zinc cans 

 of about two feet and a half diameter and three feet in 

 depth, with the top projecting over on the inside, pierced 

 with minute holes, and carried down into the water for 

 a sliort distance, leaving a place in the centre of six 

 inches diameter, where the ice can be kept without dan- 

 ger of injuring the fish. On the upper edge of one side, 

 there is a small door through which the fish can be 

 poured. By continually renewing the ice, yearlings may 

 be transported without difficulty, fifty or more in a can. 

 It is supposed the cold reduces their respiration, or possi- 

 bly the dissolving ice communicates air to the water. 

 Trout of half a pound or over cannot be carried more 

 than a score or even a dozen together, or they will die 

 in spite of the greatest care in a few hours. 



The cans have handles to which ropes are fastened by 

 broad hooks, and may be suspended from the beams of 

 the baggage cars, where they sway slowly forward and 

 back, and do not shake and jolt out the water as they 

 otherwise would. 



It may be well to remark, for the benefit of those 

 desiring to stock trout ponds, that Mr. Aaron S. Vail, of 

 Smithtown, Long Island, has devoted his attention to the 

 artificial culture of trout ; that he has been very suc- 

 cessful and is willing to stock ponds with any number of 

 young trout at reasonable rates, and has generally quite 

 a number of both young and old fish on hand. I believe 

 he charges for young trout of one or two months seven 

 dollars a hundred, but for larger fish of one year or more 

 he expects five or six dollars a dozen ; his expenses of 

 travel to be paid, but the fish to be charged for as deliv- 



