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could collect in the next two years from the sale of hunters' 

 licenses. A law has been passed requiring licenses to hunt 

 rabbits, and we will receive the money collected for licenses 

 for two years to come, in addition to the appropriation we 

 already have. 



These laws do not apply, of course, to private ponds, but 

 only to public waters. A man who builds a pond on his own 

 land holds it as his own private property and can do what 

 he pleases with it; but all the streams, lakes and bits of 

 water fed by streams come under the provisions of the law. 

 Naturally, moreover, men who build ponds usually take the 

 best possible care of their fish and are anxious to learn 

 about fish culture. 



These 22 blue prints that you see on the wall will give 

 you some idea of the plans and make-up of the new hatch- 

 ery that Kansas proposes to build. These eleven ponds 

 [indicating on blue print] four of which are small cement 

 retaining or storage ponds, make up the old hatchery. By 

 condemning and purchasing about 100 acres to the west of 

 the old hatchery, the state now owns over 160 acres of 

 land which stretches along the south side of the river 

 [indicating] for a mile. This ground is just the right 

 elevation for ponds that can be filled from the proposed 

 water supply and yet be drained, dry if need be, into the 

 Ninnescah River, which flows from west to east along the 

 north side of the proposed hatcher) - . This river flows 

 through a low bottom or valley about a quarter of a mile 

 wide, sufficient to carry all storm and flood waters without 

 overflowing or interfering with the hatchery ponds. The 

 hatchery grounds have a slope from west to east of about 

 16 feet per mile, sufficient for a good gravity run for the 

 water through the pond system. 



The pipe line will bring the water from a distance oi 

 one and one-half miles west of the hatchery grounds. The 

 water will be carried through a 21-inch pipe. It will be fed 

 from a 5 or 6 acre lake made by constructing a cement dam 

 500 feet long across the Ninnescah. In laying this pipe line 



