Baby Fish Born, 



These eggs are placed in cans with mud in them. After a 

 certain period the mud is washed away, a serum applied and 

 the eggs go to the state hatchery. In two or three weeks each 

 egg shows a black speck which soon chips through the shell 

 like a young chicken coming through the egg. This is the 

 fry. It grows fast. In a short time these black specks are 

 fry so large that they are trying to eat each other. Awful 

 cannibals these fish are. Before they get a good chance to 

 devour each other they are shipped away for planting. 



The fish train carries them out, sportsmen and farmers 

 meeting the train wherever it goes and carrying the fry to 

 the lakes where they want them. In three or four years 

 those eggs which were stripped from the female are pike 

 over the 14-inch minimum allowed by law and the fisherman 

 is catching them. 



The commission figures that 60 per cent of the wall-eyed 

 pike spawn taken from the females hatches into fry. This 

 is 12 times more than by the hazardous method devised by 

 nature. 



But with the bass there is a different story to tell. 



The female bass refuses to yield the spawn as does the 

 wall-eyed pike. Scientists have tried in this state, in every 

 state where it has appealed to the government that fish con- 

 servation and multiplication is a wise policy, to seek some 

 means for removing the spawn from the female bass, but 

 universally they have failed. 



The only way to stock one lake with bass fry is to rob 

 some other district of its bass fry. 



The state has tried raising bass, but results have shown 

 that a full grown bass of the eatable size, a bass big enough 

 to strike with vigor sufficient to give the fisherman a thrill, 

 costs the state about $1 each. Such is the result shown by 

 the Glenwood hatchery. 



Buys Baby. Fish. 



The bass fry the state does get, it buys, for the most part. 

 It is supposed to come from land-locked puddles along the 



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