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raise the nest right up, do you ? I refer to the Ijoxes tliat liave 

 three sides of wood and one of screen. 



]\rr. Lvdell: Take a dip net and dip them right out. We 

 usually take a boat, or if some of the boys have boots on, they 

 take a tub and dip the fry out and get them all that way, 



Mr. Stranahan: Is there an opening in the top of the 

 screen ? 



A. Yes. 



Q. And hy the screen you propose now the box is open on 

 one side with top, and to remove it you take the stone on it off l' 



A. We have no stone on it — that is unnecessary, 



Q. You would have that loaded down with your nest inside? 



A. Yes. You might lay a board across the to]) for shade, 

 if necessary. 



]\Ir. Titcoml) : Do you draw your pond down in removing 

 your fry from your boxes ? 



A. Xever. 



Q. How much water is there in the boxes? 



A. Twenty inches to two feet. Young small-moutli Ijass 

 are all at the top on a sunny day, and you can get two-thirds 

 of them the first dip; then you wait awhile and they will come 

 up again, but it will be two or three days before you finally clean 

 up the whole school. 



Q. That is before they are trained to say good morning? 



A. Yes, sir. (Laughter). 



The President: How high is the sand at the bottom of 

 your box above the bottom of the box? 



A. Four inches. We fill it full and concave it a little in 

 the center. 



Q. Where you had a great deal of seepage from the bottom, 

 would it not be better to raise it a little more ? 



A. There Avould be no harm in doing so. We used to use 

 six and se^'en inches, but found four inches Just as good in our 

 locality, and we do not have so mucli to clean out of our ponds 

 in the fall. 



Mr. Stranahan : Suppose you are going to corral the big- 

 mouth bass. Our big-mouth bass spawns every three months. 

 So it would be important if we could clean up the whole school 

 and have none left to eat up the subsequent brood. Xow, if you 



