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Part III. — Pond Fish Culture. page 



Eaely-day Observations 87 



Fish Culture in General 88 



Methods of Fish Culture 88 



The Kansas Fish Hatchery 89 



The Large-mouthed Black Bass 90 



Spawning Habits of the Black Bass 91 



The Spawning Bed 93 



After the Nest is Finished 94 



The Miile Guards the Nest 96 



The Young Fish or Fry 96 



Observations on Hatching, Growing and Development of the Young Fish 98 



"Voracious Eaters 103 



Food for Breeding Stock 103 



Intelligent versus Haphazard Methods 104 



Special Note on Spawning Habits 104 



Carp Visit Bass Nests 106 



Turtle Visits Bass Nests 107 



Teaching Adult Black Bass to Eat 108 



Feeding Y'oung Bass 109 



General Note on the Black Bass Ill 



Fish for Distribution and for Food Ill 



The Crappie Ill 



Spawning Habits Ill 



The Young Fish 112 



Raising Crappie 113 



The Sunfishes 114 



Spawning Habits of the Green Sunfish 115 



Spawning Habits of the Bluegill Sunfish 115 



Difficult to Secure Accurate Observations 116 



Rearing Sunfish in Ponds 116 



Serve as Food for Other Fish 116 



Sunfish Good for Ponds and Easily Fed 117 



The Bullhead Catfishes 118 



Spawning Habits 118 



Young or Baby Catfish 119 



Food Habits 121 



Not Cannibals, but Eat Other Fish 121 



Should Keep Track of Fish in Ponds 122 



Easily Fed 123 



The Channel Catfish 123 



The German Carp 124 



Carp as Food for Other Fish 127 



Carp as a Food Fish 127 



Food Habits 128 



Goldfish 129 



Food for Other Fish 130 



Food Habits 130 



Goldfish as a Food Fish 131 



Minnows 132 



Vegetation 133 



The Vegetable Waste in Ponds and Streams I34 



Kinds of Water Plants I35 



Intelligent versus Haphazard Work 13g 



Removing Aquatic Vegetation I37 



Stocking a Pond with Plants I39 



The Green Algaa 140 



The Semiaquatic Plants 140 



Growing Plants Purify Water 140 



jFeeding Fish 141 



Feeding Fish at the State Hatchery j4j 



Feeding Black Bass j 40 



Feeding Crappie 142 



