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meshed seines to clean it out and put the fish into the river. 

 The pond, made by the overflow of the river, covered dur- 

 ing high water several acres, but was then drawn down so 

 that only a small area was left, with the water only a few 

 inches deep. We took from the pond 1500 gars, mostly 

 large, and about the same number of adult food fishes, bass, 

 catfish, carp, and crappie, but no small ones. A week later 

 we cleaned out a large pond at a point below, taking a large 

 number of adult fishes and thousands of small fry, such as 

 shad, perch, catfish, minnows, etc., but no gars. At the 

 mouth of every creek and stream flowing from an inland 

 lake, these gars congregate, and the destruction to all small 

 fish life is almost incalculable, and certain extermination of 

 this small life follows when the receding waters leave gars 

 with them. This seems to me to be a subject deserving the 

 attention of all who are interested in the conservation of the 

 native food fishes. 



