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[Bull No. 1. 



good they can usually be dried in a short time by spreading 

 them on the ground or over the bottom of the pond when it is 

 drained. If this can be successfully done it saves much work 

 that would be necessary to move the mass of wet stuff. 



One good way to move or shift the vegetation in a pond 

 — where the contour of the ground will admit of it — is to plant 

 a post on the bank near the edge of the water, and to this post 

 one end of a rope, or better, a barbed wire may be fastened. 

 The wire can then be carried out into the pond in a loop from 

 twenty to fifty feet in diameter and sunk about half way to 



This illustration shows one of the Chara plants. It is very common in some Kansas 

 streams and ponds. It is commonly called "moss." 



