136 Thirty-Second Annual Meeting 



Mr. Leary: I am of the opinion that mush in any form io 

 not good for bass, in fact they will not take it. 



General Bryant: Your fish feed the year around? 



Mr. Leary : Yes — it is warm the year round. 



]\Ir. Beeman: What method do you have in handling your 

 fry ? 



j\Ir. Leary: I do not handk' any because I have had sueli 

 poor luck in transferring fry that I let them alone until they 

 are about three-fourths to an inch and a quarter long. If fry io 

 going to be handled at all they must be taken from the pond as 

 soon as they rise before the food sac is absorbed, and planted, 

 and if it is suitable water a fair per cent may live. 



^Ir. Beeman: How do you get them away from the old fisli 

 after they are hatched ? 



Mr. Leary : It is a very easy matter to take a school of young 

 fish, because they school in a Iwdy before and after the sac is 

 absorbed. 



Mr. Beeman : Do you allow the old fish and young to remain 

 in the same pond together? 



Mr. Leary : Up to the time they are three-fourths of an inch 

 long — up to that time the parent fish take care of them. 



Mr. E. N. Carter: Do you have any trouble from young 

 bass getting down in the moss ? 



Mr, Leary : We have a few bass in St. Johnsbury that dive 

 down to the moss, but after using the seine several times the 

 moss will be rolled smooth. 



Mr. Carter: Don't you kill any young bass in that way? 



Mr. Leary : Very few. 



Mr. Carter: How long is the moss? 



Mr. Leary : Our moss grows any length there. 1 f the pond 

 is fifteen feet deep it will reach the top. Of course yo\i don't 

 seine the bottom, but your fish after they get to be an inch or 

 three-fourths will school for the top — on a bright sunshiny dav 

 after 11 o'clock they will school at the top. 



Mr. Lydell : Are these rollers you used, wooden rollers "•' 



Mr. Leary : They are such as are used on net lines. 



Mr. Lydell: Then you have to provide lead enough lu sink 

 the rollers? 



