148 Thirty-ninth Annual Meeting 



Forest, Fish and Game Commission to furnish some crappie or calico 

 bass — the names are used indiscriminate!}'. What we have is really the 

 deep-bodied fish, the true strawberry or calico bass. It is very 

 abundant, especially in Kinderhook Lake, which is in Columbia County, 

 and also in Nassau Lake, in Rennsclaer County. One of our protectors 

 went to Kinderhook Lake and easily seined about one thousand calicoes 

 varying from a few inches to six inches in length. Then came the diffi- 

 culty of getting them to New York. The water was warm and of 

 course a great many were lost in transportation. 



Another place where both calico bass and crappie are raised very 

 successfully is in the vicinity of Covington, Kentucky, where Joe 

 Schlosser, during the time of the Cincinnati exposition, had some 

 artificial ponds from which he took ice in winter. These ponds were 

 stocked with crappie, calico bass, pike perch, carp and bass, fishing 

 privileges for which afforded a good source of revenue. The straw- 

 berry bass is evidently suitable for pond culture under almost any 

 reasonable conditions. Kinderhook Lake is not muddy, but of course 

 there are places where the fish can get the mud if they want it. 



Mr. Meehan : It has deep water? 



President: Yes. 



Mr. Meehan: That answers the same purpose. Do you use ice in 

 shipping them? 



President: I have tried all methods, but cannot carry them in warm 

 weather. 



