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and w and catching some minnows to feed the Large fish with. 



W. d Chicago about 1" o'clock on Friday morning, all the fish 



doing well, excepl the Lobsters and Eels. 



The temperatures a< which I aimed to keep the different varieties 

 of fish, were ;i^ follows : 



Fahrenhi It 







deg. 



deg. 



-- deg. 







Yellow Perch 42 deg. 



Bullheads deg. 



Gli rch deg. 



Trout 



Lobsters 34 to 36 d> 



Oysters ' deg. 



From the experience which I have now had, however, 1 would 

 advise a change with some of the fish, which would make the tempera- 

 ture iis follows : 



Fahrt nk< it 



Catfish 50 6- g. 



Fresh Water Eels 'leg. 



Bullheads 48 deg. 



Glass-eyed Perch 48 deg. 



Yellow Perch - 45 to 4* deg. 



Black Bass 42 to 45 deg. 



Salt Water Eels 42 to 45 deg. 



Tautogs 42 to 45 deg. 



Trout 36 to 38 deg. 



Lobsters 36 to 38 deg. 



Oysters 34 to 36 deg. 



Mr. Myron Green rejoined us with the Shad the next morning, 

 Saturday. June 7th, and at 10.15 a.m. the same day, after having: taken 

 on three tons of ice and three tons of Lake Michigan water, we left 

 Chicago for Omaha, via the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad. 



"We took on water again at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and arrived at 

 Omaha, at 11 o'clock, on the morning of Sunday. Juno 8th. 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. All the dead 

 eels had been removed, and Ave had 20.000 or 30,000 left. The mor- 

 tality of the lobsters was on the decrease, and we still had over forty 

 alive and in good condition. All the other fish were in splendid order. 

 "We had ice and water enough on board to take us, if necessary to the 

 Sierra Nevada — -certainly with what supplies we could get in the TVah- 

 satch Mountains, where the water is good. The circumstance of the 

 fish having lived so well up to this time, gave us a good deal of confi- 

 dence, and we were encouraged to hope that they would continue to do 

 well to the end of their journey. 



After leaving Omaha we stowed away as well as we could the 

 immense amount of ice we had on the car, and having regulated the 

 temperature of all the tanks, and aerated the water all around, we made 

 our tea and were sitting down to dinner, when suddenly there came a 

 terrible crash, and tanks, ice, and everything in the car seemed to strike 

 us in every direction. We were, every one of us, at once wedged in by 

 the heavy weights upon us, so that we could not move or stir. A 



