142 Thirty-Second Annual Meeting 



Mr. Clark : I do not propose to give the bass a temperature 

 of 53° when spa\\Tiing; but the idea of spring water is to have 

 clear water and perhaps to put in enough of the spring water to 

 take care of the fish, but not to lower the temperature of the 

 water too much; the temperature of the spring water is 50°. 



Mr. Beeman : My impression was you intended to close oif 

 your main supply and turn in spring water in case of distv.rb- 

 ances ? 



Mr. Clark : Yes, in case of roily water — that 1 would lovver 

 the temperature of the water and destroy the eggs — is thnt what 

 you are getting at? 



Mr. Beeman : Yes. 



Mr. Clark : I would not do that. 



Mr. Beeman : In case you had a storm of three or four d.^ys' 

 duration, would not the spring water lower the temperature of 

 those waters to the danger point? 



Mr. Clark : You will notice that the ponds are so arranged 

 that I can, if necessary, obviate any such difficulty as that. The 

 spring water will be put into one pond and that will be exposed 

 of course to the sun and the warm air, and if the worst comes to 

 worse I would only lose pe-rhaps a little in this particular pond 

 where they had spawned. Then the water would go into the 

 other pond at a warmer temperature, probably 70° F. I would 

 not put in a sufficiently large quantity to cool the whole thing — 

 in fact I could not do that — I have not enough spring water. 

 So that the matter of regulating the temperature there T can 

 handle all right, and I can give them clear water. Tliere is no 

 reason why when these ponds are completed there should ever be 

 any roily water in them, if we do not want it tliere. 



Mr. Beeman: The reason I made this inquiry is, 1 had a 

 little experience at our pond this summer. We were troubled 

 some with roily water there, and in attempting to get around 

 that we shut down entirely. Our ponds were so constructed that 

 I was able to run about four hours with very little fall of surface 

 water, but that was not long enough to prevent roily water com- 

 ing in; because we had a storm of three or four days' duration. 

 During that time our bass all sj^awned for the third time and wo 

 lost all the eggs, the temperature of the water falling to 59°, 

 Now the air temperature a good deal of the time is about 50°, so 



