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exjjerimeiital stao'o of the work). Those nineteen bass every one 

 made a nest. There were something like tliirty or thirty-five 

 females and we collected the fry fi'om tliose nests and shipped 

 them, and I packed rip my traps and went hack to Detroit snp- 

 ])osing tlie season was over with. I had l)een there nearly a week 

 when I got word from the man at the station to return, that the 

 bass were spawning, and we had nineteen nests just as nice as the 

 others M-ere, nearly as many fish, and nearh' two weeks apart. 

 This season I have had Ijass that have had two broods, and we 

 liave one particular l^ass that has fathered two broods of fish 

 every season in the same place in the same corner of the pond. 



The President: Our experience regarding the time of 

 spawning on one occasion surprised us. We were on one of the 

 little lakes at the head waters of the Flaml)eau, forty-five miles 

 from Lake Superior. The season was unusually cold, and we 

 were there on the !Hh of July fishing in those lakes, and our 

 superintendent went to one of the lakes that was notably a bass 

 lake ; the small-nu)uth l)ass were abundant, and he caught quite 

 a nundxu-, Imt was astonished to find that most of those he 

 caught had not spawned, although they were pregnant with 

 spawn. He schemed to tliink that unusual for that season of the 

 year; but owv season had been vei'y cold and backward there, and 

 that we considered the cause of such late spawning. Do you find 

 it so, Mr. Ly dell? 



^Ir. Lydell : ~\^'e had some ]:)ass spawn this year very late. 

 Prof. Reighard wanted to study the bass wdien thev were spawn- 

 ing, and he had given it up, but after he had returned to Ann 

 Arbor seven or eight more l)eds were niade, and we got quite a 

 few fry from them. I think if I (h\'w my pond down today I 

 would (iiid females that had not s])awned. The female requires 

 tbc attention of the male In-fore spawning, of course. 



1 have liad as manv failures in the black bass business as any 

 oni'. One year at Mill Creek station I had 100 beds with eggs 

 on tlicni, and 1 did not produce .")(), (K)() fry. 



Tlie President: We have bad failni'cs in our woi-k. The 

 biggest failure we bad was wlicn we niadi' a ])en in a shallow 

 lake, wlvre a sort of bed ran up wvy sballow; we fenced in a lot 

 of bass there by a good fence, and tben used your screens. But 

 it went against us some wav. and we made a distint't failure. 



