138 Thirty-Second Annual Meeting 



Bower are, right; are tlie ponds at Neosho right, and all thes.' 

 ponds that have been made ? Before I undertake this work for 

 the United States Fish Commission I want to know that what 

 I am going to bnild is the best up to that date. You have got 

 your ponds all built; I am just commencing, and I want to pro- 

 fit by any experience that you may have. Some say they want 

 to be so deep in such a part, and the spawning area wants to hi 

 so deep. Now the question I want to get at is, what is right, l 

 can make those ponds practically any depth from one foot t;> 

 fifteen; now do I want fifteen feet of water, eight feet or six or 

 four for those fish after they come down off the spawning area'- 

 And do I want forty or fifty feet of spawning area on the sides 

 of the pond, or do I want less or more? I have the plans here 

 as they are drawn up. I want to have those things fixed right 

 so that I can build at Xorthville up to date bass ponds. If you 

 people know of something better that you have got, suggest it, 

 and I will have it prepared. I have got five ponds drawn out hery 

 on these plans, and those provide, as they were drawn up by the 

 architect and engineer, for a certain depth — of course nothing 

 definite — but I presume drawn something after the style of the 

 San Marcos or possibly the Neosho ponds. But of course they 

 knew nothing about the Mill Creek Hatchery or the Michigan 

 State Commission. 



Now this plan provides for a depth of from nothing to two 

 and one-half to three feet in the spawning area, and not to ex- 

 ceed five feet, I think it is, in the deepest part. Now the ques- 

 tion arises, is five feet deep enough ? 



Mr. Leary : Not in your climate. 



Mr. Clark : What is the depth of your pond in what we call 

 the "kettle?" 



Mr. Leary: In your climate it would have to be deep. M\^ 

 climate is warm and we have no ice. I have one pond of an acr(; 

 and a quarter nine feet deep at the drawoff, and it goes to noth- 

 ing. The shallowest point at the drawoff of any of my ponds i.* 

 five feet. 



Mr. Clark: That is in some other pond? 



Mr. Leary : Yes, the largest pond I have is nine feet deep- 

 at the drawoff ; 100 feet from there it is six feet, 100 feet further 



