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Mr. Clark : For wliat reason ? Did the females plug and 

 fail to ripen? Did they die or what? 



]\Ir. Worth : They seemed to l)eeome eovered with fungus 

 rapdly, and to hecome siek and weak, and turn white around 

 the fins : and it was no use — we tried it three or four times. 



Mr. Titcoml) : How large were the pens, Mr. Worth ? 



Mr. Worth : A^'e had pens made of large, soft netting and 

 held off with stakes and strips at the hottom, so that they were 

 about six feet square. We did not make any experiments in 

 long runways of water, like races. 



Mr. Clark: ]\'or ponds built in the natural stream? 



Mr. Worth : No, we made an honest effort to do that l)ut 

 got no results. 



Mr. Clark : You made no effort to hold the fish except by 

 penning them in these six-foot square pens? 



Mr. Worth : That is true. 



]\Ir. Clark : You did not have longer pens — sixteen or more 

 feet? 



:\Ir. Wortli : We did not. 



Mr. Clark: And you did not l)uild pens right in the river 

 and allow the Hsh to liave free access to tlie Ijottom, whatever 

 it might be. 



^Ir. Worth : We did not. Our pens were not as thoroughly 

 and successfully arranged as tliey ought to have been, consider- 

 ing the importance of the sul)ject, but in all that we attempted 

 we failed. 



Mr. Titcoml) : In speaking of the penning, I have always 

 been in hopes that we could ])ut a rack at some point near Wel- 

 don on the Eoanoke river, where ^Ir. Worth is operating, simi- 

 lar to those used on the Pacific coast. The objection to that is 

 probably the fact that the people on the river above, would op- 

 pose it very strenuously, but J have a theory that if we could 

 hold the striped bass in the river at some point we might get 



