132 Thirtieth Annual Meeting 



York and brings a liigli price, but that it is marketed at all sea- 

 sons of the year, and as it is a good shipping iish it is shipped at 

 all times, and the market is very poor for it during the months 

 when it is more easily caught, and I think all this has something 

 to do \\\\\\ the variance in the estimate of the market value of 

 carp. 



General Bryant : How is the quality of the carp affected by 

 the water it is in? Where it is in sloughs of dead and sluggish 

 water and becomes very warm in the summer time, is the flesh 

 softened and does it become flabby as other fish do, or does it 

 keep firm? 



Dr. Bartlett : It goes through pretty solid. 



General Bryant : The water that it is in with us is of an 

 excellent quality and not subject to impurity. 



Dr. Bartlett : You would have a good fish all the time. Carp 

 taken out of your waters and shipped east ought to bring good 

 jH'ices. 



Mr. jSTevin : How would carp be if smoked ? 



Dr. Bartlett: Good. 



Mr. Lydell : Are the bass in your river large or small- 

 mouthed ? 



Dr. Bartlett : All large-mouthed. 



Mr. Lydell : As to bass guarding their beds, I will tell you 

 of a case of a bass guarding two beds, or rather guarding the 

 same bed twice. x\fter mating and spawning and when the fry 

 were hatched and ready to swim up, I set a circular screen around 

 the bed, but the old bass did not desert — he stayed there and 

 stood guard around the screen. I fed him there every day with 

 minnows, and after the fry were removed and the screen was 

 taken away, this same bass mated there again and got a second 

 crop of eggs on the bed, and after the second crop of fry and the 

 screen were removed, he still continued on guard over about 

 thirty fry that I purposely left there. 



]\Ir. Xevin : Was it a large or small-mouthed liass ? 



Mr. Lydell : A small-mouthed bass. 



]\Ir. Townsend : The statistics which are on exhibition show 

 the shipments of carp, ;).00(),0()0 pounds for Lake Erie amount- 

 ing to $r)0,()00 for IS!)!). 



