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taken most conveniently as food. After 45 mm. the young 

 bass turns more to fish, and there is a definite increase in the 

 size of fish taken, as the bass grows larger. The same prin- 

 ciple of size relationship is still more evident in the grand 



2. Relation Between Increase in Length of Chief Forms of Food 

 AND Increase in Length of Young Large-Mouth Black Bass 



average of the lengths of all the chief forms eaten. The aver- 

 age rises with more or less regularity from .95 mm. in 10 to 

 15 mm. bass, to 11.75 mm. in the 70 to 80 mm. bass. 



The young bass is a game fish from the time that it begins 

 to feed independently, and takes for its food moving objects 

 which it is physically possible for it to capture and eat. As 



