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In 1888 the Commission had a car built for transporting 
fry and fish. It is over 55 feet long and substantially 
built, with passenger coach trucks, air brakes, platforms, 
coupler and buffers, so that it can be easily hauled in any 
passenger train. It has an office at one end and a kitchen 
at the other, and is fitted with five berths, enabling the 
men to live and sleep on the car. Its capacity is 175 cans. 
Tt isnamed ‘“‘Attikumaig,’’ the Chippewa name for the 
whitefish, meaning literally the ‘‘deer of the water.” 
This car has proved a great convenience, and has been the 
means of cheapening the distribution of fish and fry. It 
has been in continual use from February till the latter 
part of June of every year since it was built. The plant 
of whitefish in 1887 was seventy-two million nine hundred 
and eighty-four thousand, and in 1888 about the same 
number. The brook trout plant in 1887 reached one mil- 
lion, and in 1888 was over a million and a half. The wall- 
eyed pike plant of 1887 was three million two hundred and 
eighty thousand, and in 1888 eleven million four hundred 
and ninety-two thousand. 
Mr. Bissell’s term of office expired January 1, 1889, and 
Hoyt Post, of Detroit, was appointed his successor. On 
March 20, 1888, Mr. Kellogg resigned as Secretary, and 
the present Secretary, George D. Mussey, succeeded him. 
In 1888 and 1889, the Secretary made trips of investiga- 
ion of the fisheries and filed written reports, which are 
printed in the biennial reports of the Commissioners. In 
January, 1890, Mr. 8. C. Palmer continued this work on 
a more extended scale. During the years 1891 and 1892, 
Mr. Charles H. Moore engaged in similar work for the 
Commission and obtained complete reports of every fish- 
ery in the State, his work being as complete as could be 
made. Experiments were made in hatching sturgeon 
eggs, and a few were successfully hatched. A successful 
hatch was also made of the eggs of white bass. These 
eggs are very small and hatch in about forty-eight hours. 
