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served there. I think it was about four days from the time the 

 first bass spawned until the first spawning was completed. 



Mr. Lydell : Xo bass spawned after that time ? 



Mr. Beeman : No, sir, not during the first spawning. 



Mr. Titcomb : What was the total period ? 



Mr. Beeman : In the temperature of the water there the eggs 

 apparently hatched in between four and five days. The temper- 

 ature when the first eggs were deposited was 64° F. 



Mr. Titcomb : What is the period covered by the three 

 spawnings ? 



Mr. Beeman : I will look it up. 



Secretar}' : Have you distributed any black bass? 



Mr. Beeman : In our lake, yes. 



Secretary: About how many have you distributed in your 

 lake ? 



Mr. Beeman : I distributed the entire two hatches with th j 

 exception of about 16,000 which I retained in the hatchery, at- 

 tempting to raise them up to fingerlings. I held these fry in a 

 tank and supplied them with small Crustacea for a week ; I plant- 

 ed them after they were removed about a week from the spawn- 

 ing boxes. The second hatching I held in the tank for two weeks 

 and they about doubled their size fed on the Crustacea. At that 

 time the Crustacea coming in from the river began to fail, and 

 as I had overstocked my nursery pond, having more small bas^ 

 there than the natural food supply would raise, I was obliged to 

 clean the second crop out of the tank and put them in the lake. 

 About two weeks ago I found the demand in our ponds so great 

 I could not get Crustacea enough, so I took out 6,000 an inch and 

 a half long and planted them in the lake — this reduced the num- 

 ber in the nursery ponds so I could keep up with their demands 

 for the Crustacea. 



Mr. Titcomb : How did you collect Crustacea ? 



Mr. Beeman : I used a net made of cheese-cloth placed on 

 an iron frame three feet square, and these nets were placed in 

 the river where there was a gentle current, which drew the cv- 

 clops and daphnia into these nets. They were allowed to remain 

 there for a space of five or ten minutes, and then they were 

 taken out. and as they were drawn out then I reversed the nets 

 and rinsed them off in a tub which contained water, and that 



