Pearnow. — Transporting Live Fish. 



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tilting the container until the siphon is completely submerged and 

 tilting it back again when the desired result has been accomplished. 

 This arrangement also makes it impossible for the container to be 

 filled too full. 



Fig. 2. Cross section showing- 

 automatic siphon. 



Fig. 3. Cross section showing 

 water circulating through tray. 



It should be obvious to anyone that it is desirable to carry fish 

 under the most sanitary conditions possible. While messengers 

 have instructions to carry siphons and remove pollution from cans 

 when necessary, such instructions cannot always be carried out. 

 The cans are often so arranged that it is difficult to use the siphon, 

 as for example, on the fish cars where the compartments are lower 

 than the aisle of the car and the cans are close together. The rub- 

 ber tube siphon sometimes employed is obsolete in that its use is 

 impracticable in most instances, and besides it is insanitary since 

 it is usually started by suction applied by the mouth. 



The automatic siphon permits the removing of sediment and 

 a complete change of water in the minimum amount of time, which 

 is quite important when close train connections are to be made. 

 With this device in use on the distribution cars it will be possible 

 for one man to change water on a full carload of fish while at 

 a junction point. 



PRACTICAL RESULTS ACCOMPLISHED. 



The jacketed lard can, the forerunner of the self-aerating pail, 

 vv'as used by practically all the southern stations and on the dis- 

 ■ribution cars in shipping warm-water fishes last year. The ship- 



