CHAPTER XXV, 
TRANSPORTATION OF FISH. 
The vessel best adapted for the shipment of live fish, to any 
reasonable distance in this country, is a tin can, clad with wood. 
The shipping can should be perfectly smooth upon the inside, so 
that the fish will be subjected to the least percentage of injury while 
en route. At the upper end the can should taper off, forming a kind 
of neck or shoulder, similar to that seen 
upon the common coal-oil can. This makes 
it easy for the contents to slide out when 
the vessel is to be emptied. The opening at 
the top is five (5) inches in diameter, and 
closed with a perforated lid that is fitted in 
like the top to a milk can. The perforations 
consist of half a dozen one-half (14) inch 
holes, punched through from the under side 
of the lid, thus leaving the sharp rim of the 
SHIPPING Can. 
The strong, metal guard 
holes on the outside where they can do no fastened to the lid is to 
prevent an accidental clos- 
injury to the fish within the vessel. (See ing of the air holes. 
illustration.) 
Those cans very extensively used in the coal oil trade, and usually 
designated ‘‘ wooden jacket cans,” are about the very best thing * 
that could be invented for our purpose. 
As the Express Companies demand that tin vessels be protected in 
some manner or other with wood, we find in these vessels the 
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