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not indiiiX'iious. We out splendid results there from planting 

 fry of t.lie small -mouth bass. 



^Ir. Titcomh: ! do Avant to say about this ])aper that I 

 feel as if I was amply re])aid for coming- here just to hear it, 

 if I (lid not hear anything else during the session; I think it 

 is the hest article on black bass I ever saw, by far, and I think it 

 is going to help all tlie memliers of the United States Fish Com- 

 mission to solve this bass problem. From what experience I 

 ha\e had since I came into my present position, 1 find that we 

 have not solved this question. Mr. Leary has been planting fry 

 at San Marcos with good success; this year a beginning was 

 made at Mr. Stranahan's station of doing the same thing. While 

 I have been a fingerling man to a certain extent, yet my views 

 about the bass are that they are well able to take care of them- 

 selves wben they are young, and it is much better to plant half 

 a million or a million of these fry than it is to wait until vou 

 can ])lant only a hundred tbousand, with the balance inside of 

 tile hun(h-ed thousand. 



1 wanted to ask one question about temperatures: AVhat 

 extremes of temi)erature will the adult fish stand in your waters? 



^Ir. Lydell: We have a temperature of 90 degrees there 

 sometimes during the day. During the spawning season we 

 must be very careful about the temi)erature. (3n a warm day, 

 with lots of sun. the temperature may go up to 73 degrees, but 

 when you get up the next morning and you have a temperature 

 of 4!) degrees or -")() degrees, and if any bass have spawned during 

 the i)revious day you will iliid that the l)ass have deserted their 

 bed and that the eggs are dead. But the temperature does not 

 range much higher than 90 degrees for more than a few days, 

 Itut dui-ing the summer months, after the spawning season, the 

 water is allowed to run all the time, and it will cool down to <i(> 

 degrees every night during the summer, and the minutt' the sun 

 strd<es it in the morning it will eomnience to warm up. and as 

 soon as the sun goes down the springs tlow in, and of course it 

 is cooled again, but our fish do not seem to take anv harm from 

 it at all. 



Mi-. 'I'ilcomb: One more question: In this water of yours 

 is it e(pially favoral)le for both the large and small-mouth bass, 

 or do you want (lill'erent qualities of water for the two varieties? 



