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siihstitiiU' your ecnu'iit and Spanish moss for the gravel in the 

 rig von describe, wonld it not work all right ? 



A. Yes, sir, if yon want to ship the big-month bass when 

 tliey first rise from the bed. 



Dr. Birge : If yon followed Mr. Ly dell's last plan I do not 

 see any difficulty if you wish to just take that nest after screen- 

 ing, right out. 



Mr. Lydell : I have done that, but got no results. We had 

 last vear a lot of large-mouth bass spawn in this pond and I 

 did not want them there, and I watched them till they were 

 aljout ready to hatch, and I raised the nest up ; I had added a 

 bottom in it of this cement, and after I raised it above the water 

 there was still two inches of water in the nest covering the eggs. 

 T transferred those to a jiond 16 x 34, and jout in three or four 

 quarts of daphne, but got no results. In the fall I think Ave 

 had prol)al3ly thirty or forty bass out of these three schools, 

 where we ought to have liad fifty thousand. 



(}. If you had used the box and screen on the large-mouth 

 bass when the bass had risen, you could lift the nest up and 

 dump the bess out, couldn't yon ? 



A. A^es. 



Mr. Stranahan : I would be of the opinion that Mr. Lydell's 

 plan of dipping them out would be better. 



Mr. fjydell : If I did not A\'ant any in the pond I would dip 

 out what I could and before taking the screen out of the nest I 

 would take it out on the shore and rinse it out. 



Q. I)i(hi"t you find tliat your Si)anish moss rotted oft' toward 

 the close of the season? 



A. Xo, sir; I had Spanisli moss that I had used 

 two seasons, and it is in good condition for another year yet. I 

 have used excelsior and used sea grass of some kind, and several 

 otlicr things. Tliey spawned on it all, but it was only good for 

 one season, and so I threw it away and used Spanish moss. 



^Ir. Stranahan: With us, late in the season it rots off. 

 Thougli our water is very warm, standing 90 degrees, every day, 

 and (hiring fliree or four months running up to 100 degrees, 

 and I think tlie high temperature has a tendency to rot it. 



Mr. Lydell: Our beds are hardly ever in the pond more 

 than tliirty days. 



