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furnish them. If food is not plentiful the little fellows only 

 an inch and a half or two inches long become cannibals at 

 once. It is not an unusual thing to find a young bass swim- 

 ming about with the tail of another young bass sticking out 

 of its mouth. 



We have received many letters from people who want to 

 know how to keep the moss out of their ponds. We con- 

 sider a good growth of moss of great advantage to fish 

 ponds. It furnishes an abundance of food either directly or 

 indirectly for most varieties of fish, and is especially valua- 

 ble for the protection of young fish. 



We will not have time, and the expense would be too 

 great, to seine and sort fish in a hundred ponds. We pro- 

 pose to leave the fish, old and young, in the ponds until they 

 are drained, which for the most part will be done during 

 the fall months. The ponds in this new hatchery can be 

 connected one with another by water supply pipes and by 

 open cement ways 29 inches wide. Food fish for both large 

 and small bass can be raised in adjoining ponds. The ponds 

 can be separated by flash-board and wire screen gates. This 

 arrangement will permit of many things; for instance, the 

 young bass can pass through wire screen gates into ponds 

 stocked with minnows and goldfish and this will give the 

 young bass a chance to feed on the young of other fish. This 

 food pond will be in readiness for the young bass as soon as 

 they are able to make their wav into it. This is one of the 

 methods that we propose to use in the feeding of young 

 bass. Ponds with yearling goldfish and other fish will 

 be in readiness to supply the spawning bass with food. 



The black bass seems to do well in many Kansas streams. 

 They have been there since the earliest settlers made homes 

 in the state, over 50 years ago. We hope to keep the streams 

 stocked with these fish. In Kansas every sportsman wants to 

 fish for black bass. My favorite scale fish for ponds, how- 

 ever, is the giant crappie. These fish do well in ponds and 

 are very prolific. In planning the hatchery we looked to an 



