QUESTION BOX. 



Question 1. — What advanceinenl has been made in 

 small-inoiith bass ciihure since last year? 



Mk. Clakk : While perhaps as near as I can determine there lias 

 been no marked progress, we have hail an experience at Northville 

 that seems to merit more than passing notice. We now have some 

 two-year-old small-mouth bass raised at Northville that spawned this 

 spring. They are fish reared from fry hatched two years ago in our 

 ponds. This season they spawned. Possibly this may be considered 

 an advancement in small-mouth bass culture. In any event I Ijelieve 

 that hereafter we should get our breeders by raising them. 



Mr. John W. Titcomb: From my office at the Bureau of Fisheries in 

 Washington I can see marked progress in a general way in the propa- 

 gation of small-mouth black bass, simply in the results attained. It is 

 no longer the problem that it was when first undertaken only a few 

 years ago. The small-mouth bass is just about as easily propagated as 

 the big-mouth bass and some think it is even easier. We are producing 

 a large number of fingerling small-mouth bass. This year the output 

 will be much greater than ever before. 



President: May I be permitted to call attention to one thing in 

 relation to the small-mouth black bass that may nut he known to all 

 of our members. Up to a year or so ago we in New Y(irk were under 

 the impression that the small-mouth black bass especially could not be 

 placed in ponds just prior to the spawning season and produce a good 

 crop of young. During the last two years at the Chautaqua Station, 

 and at the Constantia Station on Oneida Lake, we took bass from 

 Chautauqua and Oneida Lakes just about when they were ready to 

 spawn, or a day or two in advance of actual spawning, and put them 

 into the pond prepared for spawning, and they went ahead alxnit their 

 business just as though they had lived there all their lives. We were 

 very greatly surprised and gratified at this, for now we are not obliged 

 to keep a great stock of brood fish in our ponds. We simply go to 

 the lake, take out the fish when they are gravid and almost ready to 

 spawn, put them into the ponds, get the young, and then let the old 

 fish go. We are under no expense for the care or watching of the 

 fish during the winter or at any time. Another thing which surprised 

 me somewhat was the late date of spawning of the small-mouth bass at 

 Constantia, New York. We took two nests of young which were just 

 hatched on the 2nd of July, and I learned that the spawning actually 

 continued beyond the middle of July. 



