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handling of whitefish fry at Duluth and other stations it takes ten meii 

 to load nine cans of the round-shouldered type on the boat; ten men will 

 load twenty of these pails. 



I believe this bucket will revolutionize and cheapen the distribution of 

 fish. It is a very easy matter to stack them in the car one on top of the 

 other. In carrying them on an auto truck it is an easy matter to put one 

 row of cans on the bottom of the truck, and with a little platform in be- 

 tween you can stack the other row on top. You will not then have a total 

 height of much more than 20 or 30 inches, and the truck will not be top- 

 heavy. In that way I believe a two or three-ton truck can carry 75 or 85 

 of these cans. Those of you who are interested in distributing fish by truck 

 will find, I believe, that you can more than double your capacity. 



Mr. E. W. Cobb, St. Paul, Minn. : In Minnesota we have along the 

 north shore of Lake Superior a stretch of considerably over one hundred 

 miles of good road running parallel with the shore, but there is no railroad. 

 We have purchased a truck and plan to plant the fry ourselves. The road is 

 well surfaced but not well graded ; it is up and down hill all the way. I 

 think that this will be an ideal place to try out some of these cans during 

 the coming year. If they will stand that trip, they will stand any you may 

 give them. 



Mr. Fearnow : This can seems to carry fish remarkably well in auto- 

 mobiles. The Potomac Anglers' Club took a shipment of trout from Wash- 

 ington forty miles into Virginia over the worst roads possible. The presi- 

 dent of the club later remarked particularly that it did not seem to splash 

 as the ordinary ten-gallon can would. He told me that the bottom of his 

 automobile was not wet when he reached his destination — the little slop 

 had been taken up by the absorbent jacket. I have also carried fish a con- 

 siderable distance over rough roads in Maryland. 



Mr. Dwight Lydell, Comstock Park, Mich.: I want to get hold of halt 

 a dozen of these cans to enable a thorough trial, and if they do the work I 

 think that a considerable number will be ordered by the Conservation De- 

 partment of Michigan. 



