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this last spring" and did not couijtletf the ])()iids ^ntirclv; hul 

 we got them far enough ahjng so that we coUected our bass and 

 wintered them in the ponds. They were caught with the hoolc 

 and line in the different lakes last fall, with the exception of 

 ten that.l took tlirough tlie ice early in March, hi tlie s])ring 

 following there was a lot of unfinished work to do, and i began 

 at it immediately, as soon as the season .would allow me to do 

 so, we finislu'<l up tlic work around the })ond on a Saturday 

 night, and just about daylight on Sunday morning the hass be- 

 gan to spawn, so you see we did not lose ver\- much time. 



In addition to the work of constructing the ponds I bave had 

 to make all the paraphernalia in connection with it myself, and 

 tend to the fish. Up to the present time I have done all of this 

 with only the assistance for the last two weeks of my son, since 

 the hass l)egan to s])awn. 



Mr. Lydell : I will Ijet you did not work over eigbt bours a 

 day. 



]\Ir. Beema]! : Whik' I lumdled this vast amouut of fry mv 

 work has averaged fourteen to twenty-one hours a <biy. In the 

 first hatching and transferring I was obliged to use cheesecloth 

 to strain the water at outlet of tank, and in collecting the cnis- 

 taeea I got some sediment in the water which clogged the 

 screens, and I found that the tank would overflow every two or 

 three hours, and I was obliged to stay up all night and watch the 

 tank. But the idea suggested itself to me after losing two or 

 three nights slee]j, of using a screen of very fine wire cloth, and 

 feeding my fry through the day witli Crustacea, and just at the 

 close of the work I slipped in the wire screens and shut down a 

 part of the water sui)ply. I was running a sup})ly from a two- 

 inch pipe with a fall of fifteen inches, and tlie fry would drift 

 vip against the screen during the night, and this current of wa- 

 ter was sufficient to draw them from the bottom \\\) against tho 

 screens; but by closing down one-half of the supjjly, the currenl" 

 was regulated, so that 1 did not have any further trouble, and I 

 put in the wirecloth screens and went to bed. 



Mr. Clark: What is the depth of your tank? 



Mr. Beeman: The tank itself is about thret' feet deep, and 

 contains two and one-half feet of water. 



Mr. Clark : What is its width ? 



