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of waste into a fish flesh that is fine food for other fishes. 

 We hope to raise fish by utilizing the natural products 

 that the water produces. 



The owners of ponds and small lakes in our part of the 

 country have little or no time to feed fish. The ponds 

 should be stocked with the proper kinds of vegetation 

 which in itself not only serves as food for many fish but 

 produces the many forms of animal life that fish, espe- 

 cially small and young fish, live upon. We desire to espe- 

 cially mention the blue-gill sunfish as a general utility 

 food fish for man and for fish. This fish spawns late in 

 the season and is very productive in our ponds. The 

 young blue-gills, which appear in great numbers in the 

 latter part of July and in August, make a fine fall and 

 spring food for the young bass and crappie. The blue- 

 gill itself seems to be a rather omnivorous feeder, eating 

 more or less vegetable matter and various forms of small 

 animal life. 



BUILDINGS. 



On the 19th of September, a year ago, the contract was 

 let for the building of "A Kansas State Fish and Game 

 Building," a power house, five cottages for employees, a 

 residence for the Warden, a barn, a workshop and fifteen 

 tool houses. This group of buildings is just about com- 

 pleted and will furnish homes on the grounds for the per- 

 manent part of the working force of the hatchery. The 

 Fish and Game Building is built of concrete and bricks 

 with a green tile roof and is fire proof. The main part 

 of the building is 70 by 52 feet with an addition 65 by 42 

 feet for an aquarium. On the second floor of this build- 

 ing, the Department will have its general offices. On the 

 first floor will be found laboratories where various kinds 

 of scientific work will be carried on in connection with 

 the general work that is being done by the Department. 

 There is a small aquarium consisting of a series of twelve 

 tanks that hold on an average 540 gallons of water each. 

 These will be used for carrying on experiments as well 

 as for exhibition purposes. 



