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in temperature. It is more practical, however, than the 

 keeping and feeding of bass all the year round. I am 

 satisfied from very close observation that when the bass 

 are obtained by field work, the greatest part of the ex- 

 pense is saved, and that bass can be shipped and distrib- 

 uted from such sources at less than one-tenth the cost of 

 artificial pond culture. 



