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eat fried fish from their own ponds, and plenty of them, 

 which makes them feel eood. 



discussion- 

 Mr. D. B. Fearing, Newport, R. I.: You will be Governor of the 

 state of Kansas in two years. (Applause.) 



Professor Dyche: Thank you. I will now be pleased to have you 

 feel very free to offer any and all kinds of criticism relative to the 

 ideas presented and plans that I have been showing you. I have been 

 seeking help from every direction and am still seeking more help. We 

 want to build a good fish hatchery for Kansas, and I want to make it 

 up to date, if possible, being guided and directed by the ideas of men 

 who have been working and thinking along these lines. 



Mr. Meehan : I want to ask what you fed the crappie? 



Professor Dyche: Nothing at all; hut we try to provide conditions 

 that will furnish natural food supplies not only for crappie but for 

 other fish. We are not going to feed fish — that, is slow business, it 

 seems to me, for most of the kind of fish that we are going to raise. 

 We have fed corn, wheat and bread successfully to catfish and carp. 

 Last year we fed a lot of carp, channel catfish and bullheads during 

 the fall, winter and early spring, and brought them out in fine shape on 

 corn chop and bread. During the present summer we have fed a few 

 thousand catfish (bullheads and channel cats), together with goldfish 

 and bluegills, ail in the same stock ponds. Some chopped meat and 

 liver was added to the bill of fare. These fish learned to cat almost 

 anything in the way of meats, vegetables and grains. They seemed 

 especially fond of table scraps. The fish described are in stock ponds 

 and are being held to stock the new ponds when finished and in condi- 

 tion for fish. 



I\l R. L. A. Geserich, St. Louis, .Mo.: How are those lakes con- 

 structed so far as the control of the water is concerned — how do you 

 drain them — by valves? 



Professor Dyche : By valves. 



Mr. Geserich: Each one is connected with a valve? 



Professor Dyche : Yes. 



Mr. Geserich: You can drain them all if you want tor' 



Professor Dyche: Drain them all or drain one independent of any 

 of the others. 



Mr. S. G. Worth. Mammoth Spring, Ark.: What style of pipe is 

 used in the drainage? 



Professor Dyche: We will use about 26,000 feet of vitrified clay 

 pipe; the sizes will range from 8 to 21 inches; the joints will be sealed 

 with Portland cement under the direction of a resident engineer. 



Mr. Worth : The reason I asked that question is that it has be- 

 come a conviction in the Bureau of Fisheries, I believe, among the 

 superintendents, that terra cotta pipe is a very bad thing. 



