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we drain the ponds we find about as many young crappie as 

 young bass, notwithstanding the fact that both young and 

 old bass feed on the young crappie. We have never had 

 enough goldfish, although we raised 100,000 this year, to 

 supply the bass ponds. We have never been able to catch 

 minnows enough in our part of the country to amount to 

 much as bass food. Three or four men working all day 

 would, as a rule, only get a few thousand; and again min- 

 nows are hard to handle and keep alive when they have to 

 be transported any distance. 



Not being able to catch minnows in any quantity, w.e 

 expect to try to raise them in ponds for fish food; we also 

 expect to run them into the hatchery from the river through 

 the conduit pipe. By the use of wire screens we expect 

 to pass the minnows into certain breeding ponds and allow 

 the young fish to pass into certain minnow ponds. We ex- 

 pect to raise goldfish in great numbers for fish food, and 

 will also raise carp for the same purpose. Gizzard shad 

 also have done well as a food for other fish. The shad have 

 apparently done us good service when bred in the same ponds 

 with the bass. At least, when we drained the pond we found 

 nothing but old shad in with the bass, although in the sum- 

 mer season we noticed thousands of young shad swimming 

 in schools; they had all apparently been devoured before we 

 drained the ponds. 



Thus we have been experimenting with a few ponds 

 with more or less success. However, the successes and 

 failures we have had have given us ideas for the founding 

 and the building of the new and improved hatchery. We 

 have not been guided alone by our own experience, but have 

 tried to profit by that of every other fish culturist in the 

 country. 



The Kansas State Fish Hatchery, as planned, will be a 

 quarter of a mile wide and a mile long. The water from 

 the supply lake, one and one-half miles west, will lie 

 brought through a 21-inch pipe and delivered into Pond 

 No. 1 (indicating on map], which will net as a re- 



