cans, making them 8-gallon cans, and get just as good results. The weight 

 also is reduced. It will both decrease the cost and greatly improve the 

 cans. We are also going to eliminate the narrow neck around the top 

 of the can, which will save two inches of height on our 10-gallon can and 

 will facilitate aeration. It has been proved that just as many fish may be 

 carried in the 8-gallon can as in the 10-gallon can of the same diameter. 

 Diameter counts more than height. 



Mb. Titcomb : The American Balsa Company constructs a box of 

 balsa wood from Central America. It is as light as bark, but comes from 

 the tree itself rather than the bark. It is very good for insulation pur- 

 poses. They propose to use these boxes for transporting perishable 

 merchandise, such as chickens which have been chilled. If you have a 

 box two feet long and 15 inches wide, it will take only a few cents postage, 

 it is so light. A company was formed in New York recently, headed by 

 Kenneth Fowler, which has a concession from the American Balsa Com- 

 pany for the use of these boxes in the transportation of fish. They propose 

 to have sanitary plants for dressing the fish, and for chilling the meat 

 after the skin and bone are removed. Then, wrapped in paper packages 

 it is put into these balsa boxes and sent by parcel post, special delivery. 

 The boxes will hold the temperature, so that fish can be shipped from New 

 York to Chicago and be delivered in good condition. The temperature 

 changes very slightly, if at all, during a journey of 48 hours. It presents 

 great commercial possibilities in the handling of dressed fish. Possibly 

 a jacket of balsa wood around a fish can would not increase the weight 

 perceptibly, and would prove more desirable than canvas, especially where 

 messengers accompany shipments. 



I am pleased at the innovation introduced by Mr. Leach in reducing 

 the height of the can. If we could have the cans twice the diameter and 

 cut the height down, we would get much better results from the same 

 amount of water. 



Me. Kbaikek : In transporting fish to Philadelphia we used 50-gallon 

 cans and boxes generally about 26 or 28 inches deep by four feet wide and 

 six or seven feet long. We had paraffin canvas cut to fit the boxes and 

 always used an air pump. After loading the salt-water fishes on numerous 

 occasions we left Atlantic City at 3 o'clock for a journey of 68 miles, and 

 being able to make 10 miles an hour with the truck, arrived at the Fair- 

 mount Park Aquarium with but a small loss. The highest percentage 

 of dead was in the cans, while in the canvas-covered box the loss was 

 very small. In the transportation of any fishes in warm weather the 

 temperature of the water is driven higher by the warm air forced through 

 by the pump; this does the greatest damage, according to my experience 

 in transporting fish for the last 10 years. 



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