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four or five times a day, using no more feed but giving it a 

 better distribution and the little fish a better chance to keep 

 themselves well filled. 



We have experimented with syringes and spray pumps, 

 but with negative results. The main objection to them is 

 that the feed has to stay too long in the water and it thus 

 loses much of its food value. We have also tried casting 

 the dry meal on the water and when the wind is favorable 

 and light this is not a bad method, for the food sinks slower 

 and gives the fry a longer time to secure it. But if there 

 is much wind, especially if it is freaky, this plan does not 

 work so well for reasons which will be obvious to the reader. 



By the use of this food and the system by which it is 

 being administered, the output of this station in sunfish for 

 the first three months of the fiscal year has trebled that of 

 any previous whole year. What the final results will be can 

 only be guessed at, but it looks most encouraging at this 

 writing. 



These rapidly grown fish, almost large enough for the 

 skillet when three months old, are not, as sonic might sup- 

 pose, tender and hard to handle. They are strong, vigorous 

 and stand shipment during July and August of this record- 

 breaking vear with practically no loss, calling forth favor- 

 able comment wherever they have been sent. That this 

 mode of feeding is a complete success with the sunfish 

 there can be no doubt, but "what about the other species?" 

 may be asked. 



The season was too far advanced for any extended ex- 

 periments with the black bass, rock bass or catfishes, but 

 what little could be done gives us great encouragement and 

 we predict that it will be just as successful when worked out 

 with them as it has been with the sunfish. Fortunately we 

 had one brood of late-hatched large-mouth bass on which 

 we could do a little experimenting and later we found 

 a very small brood which had been abandoned by the 

 parent fish. These we removed to a fry pond, the date being- 

 August 4. The fry were not counted but were estimated at 





