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bass would be greatly increased. Such an arrangement would 

 allow the young bass to go where they pleased and to feed 

 upon the young of the other fish, and would allow the young 

 of the vegetable-eating food-fish to go into the bass pond and 

 serve as food for the bass. 



When hungry, old Black bass are not over-particular about 

 the kind of fish they consume. The dissection of the stomachs 

 of pond specimens where food was none too plenty has shown 

 time and again that they are not averse to eating their own 

 kind, taking young specimens that varied in length from two 

 and one-half to six and seven, and even ten or more inches 

 in length. 



Judging from what is known of the nature and food habits 

 of the Black bass, it would not seem advisable to place these 

 fish in ponds, even though these bodies of water are of con- 

 siderable size, unless some special provision can be made to 

 supply them with food and to protect the young bass from the 

 cannibalistic appetites of each other and of the old parent 

 specimens. 



In a Bulletin which is being prepared on "German Carp," 

 the feasibility of raising young carp and other fish for bass 

 food will be discussed. For stocking small ponds we would 

 recommend such fishes as the crappies, some of the sunfishes 

 and certain varieties of the catfishes. These will be discussed 

 in their respective places in this Bulletin. 



