15-i Thirty-Second Annual Meeting 



j\lr. Beenian : Its width is six feet and length sixteen inches. 



Mr. Clark : And did you have a screen right straight across- 

 it? 



Mr. Beeman : Xo, in two divisions on the lower end. 



Mr. Clark : Did you have just a straight plain screen too? 



Mr. Beeman : I had a frame in the wall : The tank was- 

 constructed of cement and stone. I had a frame in the wall 

 about twenty inches square, and two screen frames on the six 

 foot end of the tank. 



Mr. Clark : I will show you how to build a screen that wont 

 clog up unless your water is roily. 



Mr. Beeman: This wire answered the purpose all right. 



General Bryant: What was the entire length of time of the 

 spawning season from the first to the last spawning ? 



Mr. Beeman : I attempted to look that up, but my memor- 

 anda are not very clear. In the first spawning the eggs were 

 deposited May 10th, and those three spawnings occupied a period 

 of seven weeks. It was my intention and desire not to say any- 

 thing before the meeting at this time, but I was drawn into it. 

 I intended to make a very close observation of the habits of the 

 bass anotlior year, get down some fine points, and perhaps write 

 a paper then on the subject, get all this data together, and sif'; 

 out the worthless and get in the valuable. 



Mr. Titcomb : We hope you will do that. 



Mr. Beeman: There is one interesting thing that I would 

 like to investigate, and that is the development of the egg. We 

 lost a lot of our eggs this year, and the only reason I can assign 

 for it is the low temperature. The water fell to 59°. Will that 

 temperature kill bass eggs? 



Mr. Lydell: I have had 58° kill them — they died anyhow. 

 . Mr. Beeman : One of the investigations I wish to pursue 

 next summer is to take one nest of eggs and with a microscope 

 make an examination of them as soon as they are deposited, to 

 see if I can discover the germ, and liow it appears when the egg 

 is first impregnated. Possibly an observation of once a day un- 

 til the eggs are hatched would give one a pretty clear idea of 

 how a fertile egg appeared, and by examining a nest that failed 

 you might get some idea of how you lost the eggs. 



Mr. Titcomb : You can tell when your eggs are eyed. 



