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New York, and never has been, nor in the Adirondack^ where other 

 species of Simulium occur; but whatever the cause may be, the Simul- 

 iuiu in Columbia County is not troublesome, but a boon to the fish 

 culturist. 



Mr. Buck : I would like to ask Dr. Bean to go a little more into 

 detail in regard to the handling of alewife eggs. I do not have it quite 

 in my mind whether be attempts to hold the young fish after hatching 

 the eggs or not. 



Dr. Bean : The alewife eggs are hatched in the McDonald jar or 

 other good type of jar, where you can get a circulation of water. It 

 is a very easy thing to do. They hatch in a few days and begin to grow. 

 Our ponds appear to be full of the natural food which the herring 

 family like. We may be more fortunate than others, but I doubt it 

 very much. I believe that any state in which the alewife occurs may 

 take advantage of the very same thing. 



Mr. Buck: You put them into ponds soon after they are hatched? 



Dr. Bean : Yes, we put them in the ponds as fry soon after they 

 are hatched. Of course the alewife is very small. 



Mr. Worth : I find this talk about the black fly very interesting, 

 and would like to ask if it is the same as the buffalo gnat? 



Dr. Forbes : It is the same thing. They are different names for the 

 same insect. 



Mr. Worth : I wish to refer again to the large-mouth bass pond at 

 Forest Park that we visited yesterday. A description of the nature of 

 the pond I would like to have go into the record. One of the gentle- 

 men present who is connected with this work said that during this 

 summer they worked heroically to get the water moss out of the pond. 

 Meanwhile he had gotten out of goldfish, but by some arrangement 

 he secured adult goldfish from the Park Commission here and put 

 them in, and he said that in a few days the water moss was gone — 

 eaten by the goldfish. At the Mammoth Spring station last summer 

 we >pent considerable money to get the moss out; otherwise we would 

 have gotten no young bass. It would appear from what he said that 

 the goldfish pastured on the moss and destroyed it. 



Mr. Meehan : Was it chara moss that was in the ponds, or did you 

 ascertain what it was? 



Mr. Worth : 1 did not ascertain what kind it was. 



Mr. Meehan: The assumption would be that it was the chara moss. 



Dr. Bean: Xo, it is one of the milfoils. 



Mr. Meehan : The goldfish could get away with that, but it is hard 

 to understand how they could get away with the chara. 



Dr. S. P. Bartlett. Quincy, 111.: I desire to say that the superin- 

 tendent of the Missouri Fish Commission is here, and he will be very 

 glad to answer any questions. 1 have watched those ponds carefully 

 for a number of years, and I want to say that I do not believe there is 

 anywhere in the United States a state commission that has produced 

 the same number of bass for ihe same amount of money, as has 



