Fahrenheit. 



Cattish 



Fresh water eels 



TaiUogs 



Salt water eels... 



Black bass 



Yellow perch 



Bullheads 



Glass-eyed perch 



Trout 



Ijobsters 



O^'sters 



50° 



45° to 50° 



45° 



45° 



42° 

 42° 

 42° 



42° 



38° 



34° to 36° 

 34° to 36° 



"From the experience which I have now had, however, I would advise 

 a change with some of the fish, which would make the temperature as 



follows: 



Fahrenheit. 



Cattish 



Fresh w\ater eels 



Bullheads 



(i lass-eyed perch 



Yellow perch 



Black bass 



Salt water eels... 



Tautogs 



Trout 



Lobsters 



Oysters 



50° 



50° 



48° 



48° 



45° to 48° 



42° to 45° 



42° to 45° 



40° 



36° to 38° 



34° to 30° 



34° to 36° 



"Mr. Myron Green rejoined us with the shad the next morning — Sat- 

 urday, June seventh — and at ten o'clock and fifteen minutes A. M. the 

 same day, after having taken on three tons of ice and three tons of 

 Lake Michigan watei', we left Chicago for Omaha, via the Chicago and 

 Northwestern Railroad. 



" We took on water again at Cedar Eapids, Iowa, and ai'rived at 

 Omaha at eleven o'clock, on the morning of Sunday, June eighth. 

 Through the courtesy of Mr. C. B. Havens, the train dispatcher of the 

 Union Pacific Railroad, who detailed an engine to take our car to the 

 ice house at the Union Pacific shops, we were enabled to take on a ton 

 and a half of ice, and about one o'clock we started westward again. 

 We were now on our sixth day out, and everything was promising well. 

 Ail the dead eels had been removed, and we had twenty thousand or 

 thirty thousand left. The mortality of the lobsters was on the decrease, 



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