Dyche.— New Kansas Fish Hatchery 9 



Even if fish are hatched under such conditions they seem 

 to disappear soon. To produce such a fish as the large 

 mouthed black bass, it is necessary to have not only 

 the proper spawning grounds but conditions that pro- 

 duce the proper food for both old and young fish The 

 young fish when first hatched must have certain forms 

 of animal life, and as they grow, other forms must in 

 turn supply the young fish with food; and the time soon 

 comes when the young fish will devour each other, unless 

 young fish of other varieties can be had to fill their ever 

 hungry and expanding stomachs. From young bass less 

 than one and a half inches long we have taken young 

 crappy, young bluegills, young goldfish and young bass 

 (A preserved specimen of a bass one inch in length that 

 was caught June 2, 1914, while in the act of swallowing 

 a young goldfish % of an inch in length, was exhibited.) 



REMARKS. 



Fish culturists are continually receiving letters from 

 people who want to know how to raise fish. Without 

 assuming to give advice to any one, we would like to 

 drop a long distance hint to such people. First we 

 would refer them to bulletins and other literature pub- 

 lished by fish culturists; and, second, we would say, that 

 in our judgment, if one desires to know how to raise 

 fish and become a fish culturist, it is almost necessary to 

 make an all day and all night— in fact, an all year and an 

 all life time study of the subject, and especially of the 

 spawning and food habits of the kind or kinds of fish 

 that one desires to produce. 



discussion. 



♦J^V'T"^ ? f t M l chiga " : l desire to ask Professor Dyche if the 

 fish introduced into the pond with the bass were blue-gills and sunfish 

 and whether he keeps any small-mouth bass? 



Professor Dyche spoke of fish eating one another. We have found 

 that .four old bass are well fed all the time they do not bother the 

 young bass to any great extent. We endeavor to feed our bass in aH 

 the ponds once a day and give them all they will eat, and we raise a 

 great many more fingerling bass in the pond with the old tei than 

 we would in a pond from which the old bass were excluded 



Phof. Dyche: T do not like to put blue-gills in with the bass when 



