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immediately after spawning, about May 15. and further that the 

 young fish were immediately assorted as to size, also as soon as they 

 became large enough they were assorted twice a week. 



These four points will be of importance to every one interested in 

 bass culture, and the only way to get them before those who are not 

 present is to put something in our record, which is my excuse for 

 drawing attention to them now. 



Mr. Meehan: Gentlemen, this matter of bass culture is one of very 

 great importance, and, curiously enough, there have been no papers pre- 

 sented at this meeting on that subject — the first time in many years 

 within my knowledge — and I am especially glad this matter has been 

 brought up now, because I think it is important that we should have 

 something to say about bass culture, large and small-mouth bass culture 

 or both. 



One thing in the utterances of the first speaker about the condition 

 of things in the pond yesterday, ] would not have missed for anything. 

 The fish were in splendid condition; they could not have been in finer 

 condition; I never saw finer fish for their age. 1 feel, therefore, that 

 we should go into this matter and have further discussion on the whole 

 question of the bass. Dr. Rean, I think you can perhaps tell us some- 

 thing of very great interest in regard to this matter of bass. 



Mr. Worth: If Dr. Bean will give me a moment I want to say 

 that in my remarks I mentioned Forest Park, but not the Missouri State 

 kid: Commission or the gentlemen who have had the honor t< > do that 

 excellent work out there. I think that in the proceedings that point 

 ought to be mentioned. 1 do not know the names of those gentlemen. 

 but I suppose the work is being done by the Missouri State Fish 

 ( Commission. 



Mr. Meehan: That is right, the Missouri State Fish Commission. 



Dr. Tarleton 11. Bean, Albany, N. Y. : Mr. President, I do not 

 know how many of the state commissions would be able t<> profit by 

 the experience of New York, but T think it ought to be a matter of 

 record that in our state we take advantage of the spawning season of 

 the alewife, which we get in the Hudson River during the shad season. 

 The alewife is so accommodating that it arrives at our hatching sta- 

 tion at just the right time, and continues to grow in just the right ratio 

 of progression to bring our bass to the same condition in which these 

 splendid bass in Forest Park were found yesterday. Without intending 

 to boast, I think that Xew York has as line small-mouth bass as any 

 other state, and it is due to the opportunity to get alewife eggs at the 

 proper time. 



Then Nature has done something else for us in Xew York which I 

 presume she is also doing in other localities. We have the black fly 

 which on entering the larval stage collects on the slash-boards of our 

 pond outlets in such enormous quantities that the little bass generally 

 gorge themselves, so that one can almost see them grow. 1 have reallv 

 been astonished coming down to that bass station week after week to 

 note the rapid strides that the bass were making. 



