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Mr. Clark : At what period do you introduce food for your adult 

 fish? 



Mr. Lydell: Do you mean minnows in the storage pond? 

 ]\Ir. Clark : Yes. 



Mr. Lydell: In the fall of the year and at no other time. Just now 

 we are feeding liver to the adult bass. 



Mr. Titcomb: Would you introduce the minnows in the fall of the 

 year? 



Mr. Lydell : We put large numbers of live minnows in our storage 

 pond every fall. What the bass do not eat in the fall they have when 

 they come out of winter quarters, but when the breeders are put into 

 spawning ponds they have no live minnows. They spawn at once and 

 we commence feeding them immediately after screening the beds. 

 Many fish culturists forget their old fish after they have their young. 

 The parent fish must be well fed in onler to produce a nice lot of fry 

 the next season. It is necessary to begin feeding right away after 

 spawning. 



Mr. Clark: Mr. Lydell breeds both large and small-mouth bass. 

 We breed nothing but the small-mouth at Norlhville, so anything 1 

 say applies to small-mouth only. 



Mr. Lydell: My statements also refer to small-mouth bass. 



Mr. Clark : At Northville we handle small-mouth bass in much the 

 same manner as described by Mr. Lydell. The fish are put into a 

 storage pond in the fall with plenty of minnows, and when taken out 

 in the spring they are given no minnows. At other times the food is 

 principally liver. Possibly a few minnows are fed if the fish get a 

 little thin on the liver diet. With reference to the question of liver, 

 why should we not feed it extensively to small-mouth bass the same as 

 to ti-out? There is no difference between feeding small-mouth bass 

 and trout, so far as I can see. 



Mr. John E. Gunckel: Why is it that when these educated, liver- 

 fed lilack bass which you deposit in the streams are fished for witli 

 liver by my class of people we cannot catch a black bass, but land 

 instead a catfish or bullhead? 



\\r. Clark : We do not distribute our adult liver-fed fish. The 

 little fish, the fingerlings, never have any artificial food. 



-Mr. W. H. Safford: Where do you get your stock fish from? 



Mr. Clark: I just stated that we arc now raising tlicni ourselves. 

 Heretofore we have taken them from native waters, but hereafter we 

 propose to raise them. 



Mr. Safford: Were your wild lish fed with liver from the beginning? 



Mr. Clark : W'e got them to take liver as soon as we could. 



Mr. Safford: We have both the large and small-mouth bass but can- 

 not induce either species to take liver at any time of the year. 



Mr. Clark : Then you are not using the right kind of liver. 



Mr. Safford: We have both the beef and the pork. 



Mr. Lydf.ll: Your liver is out of order. (Laughter.) 



