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.only to supply a perfect circulation; 1 accomplished tliat by dip- 

 ping a little water from outside and pouring it in, and it worked 

 all right. If you intend to breed the small-mouth bass I suggest 

 that you luu'e on your spawning slioals even depth of two feet, 

 because if you build these boxes perhaps two feet seven or eight 

 inches high, they may not hold your fry when they rise. The 

 top of these boxes must project al)0\i^ the water, otherwise the 

 fry will come right over the top. 



Secretary : This discussion it seems to nie has a great deal 

 of interest, l^ecause Mr. Beeman is purely an amateur who took 

 up this matter quite recently. He resides on Lake Waramoug, 

 Conn., from which bass were nearly exhausted, and he .and oth- 

 ers living on the lake wanted to restore the supply, and they 

 started in in an amateur way to raise bass, and he got his infor- 

 mation through the men of this Society who have experimented 

 in this line. I think he corresponded with Mr. J^ydell, Mr. Tit- 

 comb, and different men of the Society whose names he gatliered 

 from the reports of our proceedings ; and therefore he is an ama- 

 teur and goes into the work without any prejudices or precon- 

 ceived opinions; and 1 think his ex])erienee and his o])inions are 

 very refreshing on that account, because he luis not made a lot 

 of mistakes heretofore. What he makes now he is free and frank 

 to acknowledge, and he may have discovered something, and L 

 rather think that he has succeeded in raising small-mouth bass 

 in quantities which it has been stated is an almost unknown 

 thing as yet. I believe Mr. Ijydell has said that the raising of 

 small-mouth l)ass has not been very successful. 



Mr. Lydell : Not so bad as that. (Laughter). 



Mr. Beeman: 1 would like to acknowledge my indebtedness 

 to ]\h'. Seymour Bower of Michigan who gave me valuable infor- 

 mation as regards the construction of the pond, and also to Mr. 

 Lydell, but at that time Mr. Bower did not give me very much 

 information on how to handle the l)ass. He said that there was 

 little known on the subject. 



Mr. Bower: You will remember you agreed to visit our Mill 

 Creek station last season, and I said I would give you all the 

 information I could, l)ut you did not show up. (Laughter). 



Mr. Beeman : The reason is that I was too busy at homo 

 witli our own hatchery. We commenced the work a year ago 



