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not ;i <l;iy. oxi-t'pt wlicii it is wrv cold, but what tliev will come 

 \\\) and tVed. 1 took a nnniber of bass, and quite a number of 

 them liad erawhsh and liver in them. T took them out after 

 thev were fed, to see if they had taken the liver. But you will 

 find it takes about two weeks to get them to feed on liver. We 

 fet'd iu one [)lace, and keep continually at it. But they do come. 



^[r. Carter: I sliould like to ask Mr. Lydell how he keeps np 

 his supply y 



^Ir. Lydell : We introduce new l>ass every season — a few — 

 out of our stock pond. This season I think we lost six adult 

 bass. 



^Ir. Carter : Do you get better results from the bass you in- 

 troduce each si)ring? 



Mv. T.ydell : I get better results from the old ones. 



]\f r. (^irter : I have had the reverse. Each spring we have 

 been obliged to replenish the stock by taking them from Lake 

 C'hamplain and transferring them to St. Johnsbury, and al- 

 most all of the fry shipped out from St. Johnsbury have come 

 from eggs of fish taken from Lake C'hamplain the same spring, 

 and the fish held over from one spring to another yield a very 

 small quantity of eggs. 



President : Are you able to feed these fish that are held 

 over ? 



^Ir. Carter : Yes, during the first part of the season we are. 

 We feed them on shiners, small perch and otlier fishes of that 

 character taken from a nearby stream, but later in the season the 



food sup|)lv falls off. 



]\Ir. Titcomb : INIay I ask a question as to that particular 

 feature of the |)aper — as to the advisability of feeding shiners to 

 the Ijrood fish while the fry are still in the ponds? 



^Ir. Lydell : Something we never do is to introduce a live 

 minnow in our bass ponds before or during the spawning season. 

 I liaAe l<nown them to clean u]) a whole pond of fry l)y having 

 them in there. There are so manv weeds that the old l)ass can- 



