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duct'd. At the time I removed the fry i'roiii the spawning boxe? 

 I had no time to count them. The only way that 1 coukl get at 

 tJie nundjer was to transfer them to a tank that 1 had l)iiilt at 

 the north end of tlie hatehery. and after tlie first hatch were 

 placed in this tank I had several persons who came there give 

 me what in their opinion was the space occupied by a single fish. 

 Tlie distance was phiced at about one cubic inch. After figuring 

 up the capacity of this tank I was somewhat surprised at the re- 

 sult : it gave me 414,720 cubic inches, which, according to the 

 calculations would give tlie numl)er of small-mouth bass fry that 

 r had on hand. Since talking with some gentlemen here they 

 think it is an utter imi)ossibility, as T had only twenty-four 

 breeding fish in my pond at that time ; about one-third of them 

 were males, the other two-tliirds were females; but 1 do not wish 

 to make this statement as absolute — I cannot say that it is the 

 exact number of fish, because undoubtedly it is not : luit it gave 

 me some i(U'.a of what we miglit liavt'. 



Mr. (lark: Tliese were all small-moulli bass? 



Mr. Beeman : Yes. 



:\lr. Lydell: What size were they? 



^ir. Beeman: At that time those that I retained in the niir- 

 sery i)onds were one and one-eighth to two inches in length. 



^Ir. Clark : 1 mean adults. 



Mr. Beeman: They ranged from one and one-half to four 

 pounds each. The fenuiles were the largest. Most of my females 

 were from two aiul one-half to three and one-half pounds — one 

 or two specimens were nearly four. 



Mr. Tjvdell : We made an accurate count of the roe in a fe- 

 male small-mouth bass weighing one and three-fourths pounds 

 at Mill Creek station tliis year, and there were 5,000 and some 

 odd eggs in the fish. They were counted by Professor Keighard 

 and myself. 



Mr. Beeman: Proba.])]y the calculation \ have given is not 

 exactly correct; it may lx> overestimated, but when the bass 

 spawned the second time I counted up the results of one nest, 

 and it j)roduced (1,2 10 f n' ; this was a second spawning and there 

 were nowh(>re near the number of eggs dejiosited at the second 

 spawning that there were at the first. In fact i obserxcd I'our 

 cases in the first spawning, where two females spawiu'd in the 



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