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the warmouth bass, C galosus. It grows to much larger sizj 

 than the bream, thick and fleshy, with large mouth, and is to 

 some extent cannibalistic, but not enough so to make it objoc 

 tionable. It will eat a few of its own young, but not enough to 

 miss them — just enough to make the balance grow well. 



The average weight of the warmouth bass is about one pound; 

 though I have seen them weighing as high as five pounds. They 

 are very easy to raise ; will do well in water with a temperature 

 at 190°. I have seen them taken from stagnant water. The 

 warmouth bass resembles the rock bass, with red spots on eyes 

 fore and aft, not as with the rock bass with red spots top and 

 bottom of eye. These three fish are the very best for small ponds 

 and \\'ill satisfy any one at the table or market. 



One of the gTcatest mistakes is made in overstocking the 

 ponds and then allowing them to remain so. I have seen ponds 

 stocked with 590 fish and after they are two years old left to re- 

 main in the ponds. This is a mistake, after the fish begins to 

 spawn the adults should be taken out as fast as possible so as to 

 allow the young to grow. 



Look well to the arranging of the pond and embankment. 

 Then stock your small ponds with the three aforesaid fish and 

 you will succeed. 



DISCUSSIOX OF SAMUEL LOVEJOY's PAPEK. 



Dr. Bean (during the reading of the paper) : We look on 

 the Warmouth bass as a small fish. The writer of the paper has 

 seen them weighing as high as five pounds, and there is no rea- 

 son to doubt it; because I have seen rock bass myself from a Vir 

 ginia river that weighed over three pounds, but we look on the 

 bass in the region in wliieh it is native, western New York for 

 example, and the Great Lake region — as a half-pound fish. 



Mr. Titcomb: That is one of the most important subjects 

 we have got before us in this country, I believe, today — I mean 

 the question of fish fanning or pond culture in states where they 

 do not have the lakes and streams which we have in New Eng- 

 land — ^^out through the west, for example, and the southwest. 

 The Commission is receiving inquiries upon this sul)ject almosr 

 every day, about how to construct ponds, and what to stock them 

 with. The main difficulty in writing a pajoer or preparing anv 



