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Mr. Root: There is no remedy. In black bass ponds 

 where that ijreen matter is. black bass will not bite. On lUock 

 Island they have a g'reat many ponds and the deepest pond they 

 have is filled with this green scum, and y(ju cannot catch black 

 bass while that is there, but it doesn't last very lonj^-. 



Mr. Lane: I will give you my exji'jrience, but perhaps all 

 others have had the same. I believe in a certain measure that 

 this g^rowth is a good thing for trout. I think that it is a l)enefit, 

 but over and above a certain amount of it 1 think it is an '"njur)-, 

 and all the way I get clear of it is to keep the water as deep as 

 I can and covered up from the sun. I l)elieve at the same time 

 that the fish eat a certain amount of it. I have examined and 

 experiment-sd with fish in ponds containing it, and they will 

 hardly ever take but a very little artificial food and yet they will 

 thrive perhaps better than those that are a great deal thicker and 

 fed artificially. I believe it is a good thing, a certain amount; 

 of it. 



And now while I am up I have one little poin.t on the food of 

 fish, and if I am wrong I wish to be corrected; if T am right I 

 shall be glad to have given my experience. If you feed liver. I 

 should prefer to have it the same day as killed and not after it is 

 tainted: what I shouldn't want to eat myself I wouldn't feed to 

 young fish. T lielieve food of that kind is injurious, does more 

 harm than if it is not fed at all. After trout get to be a larger 

 size I think that liver-fed trout is a stumbling block to many, 

 they say the}- don't want to eat tliem ; whether they have that 

 taste or not I don't know, l)ut most everyone says they do, and 

 for that reason I have experimented with a food mixture that I 

 make in this way : I take a common farmer's boiler and put 

 in three l)uckets of water, then put in a pound to a pound and a 

 half of salt, which is dissolved in the water. Then, wlien the 

 water comes to a smart boiling point. I put in what is called 

 animal meal — that is powdered and ground U]) fine — then add 

 fine feed and common Indian meal, mixed — I mean shorts, only 

 it is a different grade, a finer grade than shorts. I then cook 

 and mix it to a state where it will 1)e hard when cold, then force it 



