166 Thirty-Third Annual Meeting 
Mr. Baldwin: I handled 107,000 this year, and took them 
out, and I think my loss was 200. Every fish is counted out to 
me before I leave the station, and every fish I lose over five is 
reported to Washington. You take a thousand fish like those 
(three-fourths of an inch), I cannot do it without loss in our 
Texas climate. 
Mr. Stranahan: I can only tell you what our messenger’s 
reports say. Mr. Cunningham started to write a paper but did 
not finish it, on the method of carrying large numbers of fry 
without loss. 
Mr. Baldwin: In Texas waters if you carry fish three to six 
inches long, fifty to the can, twenty-eight hours, it is impossible 
to get through successfully. I carry about seven and one-half 
gallons of water in a can, but the fish that I carry, one hundred 
to the can, run about two inches or more in length. Of course 
we have a great many lay-overs there and a great many changes, 
but I cannot carry a thousand to a can. I have carried as high 
as thirty-eight cans of fish in one baggage car in Texas sixty- 
eight hours, and those thirty-eight cans only contained 6,800 
fish, and that is why I asked the question. 
Then in Texas you cannot change water. I never change the 
water, do you? 
Mr. Stranahan: It is not necessary. We do not want it 
changed. We use lots of ice. 
Mr. Baldwin: I am very much interested in this work and I 
would like to know if anybody can beat me carrying fish. I want 
some pointers. Every fish that I carry is counted. You know 
there is a vast difference between estimating fish and counting 
them, and every fish that I carry is counted to me by the employes 
of the San Marcos station, and I get a receipt for them, and I 
have had men count them on me. They do not always take my 
word—that is the point I wanted to make—actual count. I wish 
to add that I am talking about large-mouth bass and assume the 
gentlemen from the north are talking about small-mouth bass, 
which might make some difference. 
Mr. Stranahan: In all of our small fish we estimate them, 
