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ment of trout from White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, ta 

 Washington, D. C, previously referred to, was in an improvised 

 pail of the new type. It was during the spring of 1922 that the 

 Bureau arranged with the Naval Gun Factory for the manufacture 

 of 65 pails embodying the ideas set forth in this paper. These 

 pails v/ere made by hand and delivered to the Bureau in small 

 lots from time to time. Several of the Bureau's cars have used 

 them, carrying five in the space occupied by three of the regulation 

 cans, with very satisfactory results. 



The follov/ing are typical examples of shipments of fish made 

 with this device: 



1. To meet an urgent call for adult rainbow trout two of the pails 

 were sent to White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, with instructions that 

 12 adult fish be forwarded to Washington, D. C, without an attendant. 

 The consignment reached Washington on the morning of March 20th, having 

 be:n shipped the previous evening. The fish v/ere brought to Central station 

 abcut 8 :00 a. m., where they remained without attention until 11 :00 a. m. 

 when they were conveyed to the Zoological Park and held until 3 :00 p. m. 

 Each can contained 6 rainbow trout, the fish being 11 inches in length. 



An item in the Fisheries Service Bulletin of May, 1922, con- 

 tained the folloing report of a shipment made by the Bureau: 



2. "On April 8th a shipment of adult black bass for breeding purposes 

 was forwarded from Washington, D. C, to Edenton, North Carolina. The 

 fish, 60 in number, averaging about 2 pounds each, were carried in 8 of 

 the regulation 10-gallon cans, each containing about 8 gallons of water, 

 5 fish per can ; one 20-gallon can with 10 fish ; and two of the new type 

 of vessel with 4 gallons of water and 5 fish per can. A dipper was used 

 at intervals to aerate the water in the old type vessels. No special at- 

 tention was given the fish in the new type except to lift the tray during a 

 delay at the transfer point. A satisfactorily uniform temperature was main- 

 tained in these pails throughout the 13-hour trip and the fish were delivered 

 m good condition. Three fish were lost in the regulation cans." 



3. To fill an application for fish of the Potomac Anglers Club, 1,400 

 V/4-inch rainbow trout were shipped by express from White Sulphur Spring.* 

 West Virginia, to Washington, D. C, the consignment being contained iv 

 'wo pails. The shipment left White Sulphur Springs on the evening of 

 April 14th and reached Washington at 8:30 a. m. the next day. The fol- 

 "owing letter dated April 18, 1922. on the subject was received from Mr, 

 P. E. McKinney, chairman of the organization's committee on fi)sh stocking: 



"With reference to the test conducted by the writer on the handling of 

 brook trout in the new tj'pe of Fearnow self-aerating fish pails, a shipment 

 of brook trout, consisting of two pails containing approximately 700 fish 

 each was received by the writer at Union Station on April 15th, about 8:30 



