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using one female. Professor Keigliard and myself this year 

 watched the fish. A pair of hass was in a bed spawning and we 

 watched them. He got half throngh, got a nice lot of eggs, and 

 another male came in and he had a scrap with the gentleman 

 and took the female away from him and toolv her to another nest 

 and spawned with her there. There were two nests of eggs from 

 one female. 



In onr experimental station near Grand Eapids wlien we 

 first started, our superintendent sent me there, and we had in. 

 tliat ])()nd thirty-eight or forty fish, and tliere were nineteen nests 

 made tliat were j^roductive, and I cleaned them up, shi])ped th'j 

 eggs and took up my apparatus and went to Detroit, and about 

 a week after that Superintendent Bower ordered me back to the 

 station, saying that the bass were spawning again, and I got 

 nineteen more nests that were productive, and slii])])ed those. 



Mr. Leary: I -wTote Mr. Ravenel tluit I liad Ijass tliat 

 s])awned twice and he said that it could not be possible. I told 

 him it M'as possible because I had a blind bass among the fish, 

 and she was the only one I had that was blind, and I know that 

 bass spawned twice. 



Mr. Titcomb : Was that a female or a male ? 



Mr. Waterhouse : Was the fry blind? (Laughter). 



Mr. Leary: I cannot tell the difi^erence positively. 



Mr. Eavenel : The reason I made the inquiry from Mr. Bee- 

 man was because the question has been discussed a great deal 

 and it is believed that they s])awued twice. Except the case re- 

 ferred to liy ^Ir. Leary, which I regard as authentic, wt' nevei- 

 have liad any definite ]n-oof that bass spawned twice. I wanted 

 to prove whether he had a sufficient numl)er of m'sts at different 

 periods to indicate that tlu' l)ass had actually s])awne(l more than 

 once. 



Mr. T^ydell : I know the maU' bass will spawn twice. I 

 think the blind bass the gentleman ^])eaks of was excusable, 

 for he could not see what he was doing anyhow. (Laughter). 



Secretary : I would like to ask ^Ir. Beeman how many frv 

 he has planted and how many fingerlings, and how many he has 

 on hand. 



]\h-. Beeman: I ])lanted all of the fry ])roduct'd there exce])r 

 about 1(),00!}, as near as T could estimate it. which were put into 



