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inches long, that you possibly can; keep all fish except the kind 

 yoii wish to propagate entirely out of your ponds; feed enough 

 to keep your parent fish healthy throughout the year and keep 

 them full during breeding season in order to prevent them from 

 devouring large numbers of what will make your fingerlings; 

 see that you have abundant cover to hide your fry, baby finger- 

 lings and fingerlings, and to make a good home for your adults 

 and all else will come to you. 



DISCUSSION OF MK. STRANAHAN's PAPER. 



Mr. Lydell : I consider that a very valuable paper and very 

 interesting, and I wish to say that every word that Mr. Strana- 

 han has said in there I believe in. I do not see anything in the 

 paper to criticise. 



Mr. Seymour Bower: I had some correspondence with Mr. 

 Stranahan on the subject of feeding adult bass on liver, and 

 what I intended to say was we had no success in feeding them 

 on liver continuously. We do feed liver to the adult bass after 

 the spawning season and feed it more or less all summer, but in 

 the fall of the year we feed minnows, and again in the spring. 

 We found when we fed them on liver the year round the eggs 

 would all blast; and while we think it is all right to feed liver a 

 part of the year we believe they need the flesh of fish in the fall 

 and spring in our latitude in order to make them healthy and of 

 good vitality. 



Mr. Clark : I would like to ask if we are to take up the dis- 

 cussion of the bass question now or after all the papers are pre- 

 sented ? 



President: That is witli the meeting. My own impression 

 is that it would probably be better to read the papers first and 

 then enter into a general discussion. 



]\Ii'. Clark: It is an important question to me because T am 

 an infant in the bass business — I am just commencing — and 

 there are some questions I want to ask. I have been in the busi- 

 ness thirty odd years, but I am still a primary school man. 



