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spawning. I - in <£%££>£& °L %Sg%£% 



Jhe blue-gills are, or the blue-g. lis where *e b »ss are ^^ 



„e very bad about eating up th ^"^ C to take eare of them- 

 S£ «T h aS. 1 "XLTtoefb- a^in eo k s n onie s*e the tables are turned. 



X r^ng^Tp^o ^JJSWJSrtSffi sS, 

 J?^^\MW£ Strow to 'the ponds for 



them to feed on. , j bass but rely 



Mr. Woods, of Missouri: We do not ^eed our g ^ ^ 

 on other fish and crayfish. We separate : on themS elves. Our 



^ss as soon as^the ^r - able tc, take ca ^ ^_ 



superintendent, Mr. ^cnran, me thod. 



ence, claims to have *^ JJ 08 *^^ twenty-eight years we have 

 Ma. Fearing, of ^^.^nTthe fry in ponds and feeding them, 

 followed the custom of P}^*ith sufficient food they turn cannibals 

 When they are not provided with ^auftc e t J ones may ev 



and the larger ones eat up the smaller. ^ food th ant) 



rS havTUh laTand B - & * the same place and they 



I have ponds where hornwort nulfml a, adotM ^ & ^ 



m only called "nios^ grow to^ an^ exte of ^^ 



mass . On these plants *« J™™^ 1 ^ for all kinds of fish to start 



ceans, insects and larvae ^tfuni ish t ooa figh j M 



with, and some of those fish make foo d to ^ destroying aU 



seine one of those ponds to get the hxrge ^^ Q _ 



the plants. So they all live there togew , Q bas s from 



= b t e o r i^XX*-* Sa ^ - -**- the old fish 



ones and fight for exist enc e ^°t °n^y tJ tot y the 



the pond and learn to know food when t y ^ ^ ^^ 



different kinds of insects the httl goldm , ^ fis h in a stream 



and learn to feed on them. When you p ^ ^ idere a 



SX^S 1 - M*- Al^ or stream w,U have 

 its own peculiarities ., lc „ Hs . You spoke of losing fish in the 



J£ b G /r la^r ST£SSi £"-3l- ones. » that beeause 



two-pound bass in a tank while t^h w«™ "betimes swallow eaeh 

 SffJST&ft r.U h p3ror Y ,°ank? : few days before they are 



"STtau. of Ohio; In some of our ponds wMh -^-."SS 

 readUv the young fish are taken as soon as th y com e^f 

 and placed in brooding places. I»* « „,,. lhe you „ e fish to 

 3*hSrS."JS- TT/yTnl'nsh appear to know instinct- 



