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Mk. Lydell : Does A[r. Titcomb refer to the frog or toad tadpole? 



Mr. Titcomb : Both. 



Mr. Lydell : I consider them a nuisance, because they prey on good 

 as well as poor nests. The tadpoles were often so numerous around 

 the nests that we have thought at times when screening a nest that 

 there were more of them than bass. Some three years ago I found that 

 by going out in the evening with a lantern we could easily gather up 

 the adult toads. In a single evening with the help of two men I 

 gathered up a common sugar barrel full, which did away with the 

 tadpoles for that season. 



Mr. Safford: Do you mean the term tadpole to include the toad as 

 well as the frog? 



Mr. Titcomh: Yes, the toad eggs are produced in the water the same 

 as frog eggs. 



Mr. Safford: The term tadpole applies exclusively to the frog, ac- 

 cording to my understanding. 



Mr. Meehan : There is a tadpole of the toad also. 



Mr. Lydell: Every year before the spawning season we prevent the 

 tadpole nuisance in the manner described above. 



Mr. Charles W. Burn ham: Did you remove the eggs that were 

 spawned by the toad, too? 



AIk. Lydell: If any were there we did. They are found in long 

 strings and may easily be gathered up and destroyed. 



President : We have done it for years. 



Mr. John E. Gunckel: I fish a great deal in the upper waters of the 

 Mauniee. We have both the small-mouth and the large-mouth bass, 

 but the large-mouth are quite plentiful in the big pond a few miles 

 above the rapids. W'lien the tadpoles are of good size, we go up on 

 the rapids and catch more bass than with any other kind of bait. I 

 refer to the common green frog tadpole. T have not time to tell you 

 how large fish I catch. T will tell you that later. (Laughter.) 



Question 5. — What niiml)er nf adiill 1)lack 1)ass l)roo(l 

 ilsh per acre i.s considered best to produce the larg'est number 

 of fingerlino-s numliered l^/. and 2? 



Mr. Lydell: That is a very hard question to answer. At the Mill 

 Creek station we get the largest number from 40 to 50 pairs : at some 

 other bass stations it might require a much larger muubcr. 



Mr. Ward T. Bower: This question relates I believe to the large- 

 mouth bass, although it merely states black bass on the slip before me. 



Mr. Meehan : It is generally understood as meaning the small-mouth. 



Mr. Ward T. Bower: At the W^ashington office of the Bureau of 

 Fisheries the expression "black bass" refers to the large-mouth, and 

 when the small-mouth is meant it is so specified. 



Mr. Meehan: In Pennsylvania the local phrase is black bass for 

 small-mouth bass. 



