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entire length of the series, cutting off the nesting grounds so that 
the large fish are confined to a limited area. One end of the 
picket is driven into the mud, the other rising to a level of, or a 
foot above, the outside walls. Gates wide enough to pass a 
wheelbarrow are set in over each sub-division. 
Any size or shape pond can be subdivided in this manner, 
and can then be used as one large or as a series of small ponds. 
Discussion of the papers of Mr. Leary and Mr. Lambert. 
Mr. Titcomb: (Before reading Mr. Lambert’s paper) I 
recently visited the Wytheville station, and while talking with a 
fish culturist there he presented a new idea on the construction 
of ponds for the propagation of bass, and I requested him to 
make a drawing and some specifications. Now this paper he 
did not send for the use of the society, but it seemed to me an 
idea which possibly might be worked out and become of value to 
us, and I have therefore taken the lhberty to present it at this 
time. 
(At the conclusion of the paper). I have here the drawing 
which he has made to give the idea. It can be modified in many 
ways, but as you have learned from the paper, the chief idea is 
to have a series of small ponds which can be overflowed, and 
when overflowed form one large pond, drawing down that pond 
you reduce your fish into as many small ponds as you have parti- 
tions, and can take them out at your leisure. 
Mr. Leary: I think the plan is quite elaborate, for as soon 
as you draw your ponds, the fish all go to the upper ends anyway 
and you can get most of them by seining. Bass do not follow 
the water, they work against it. So I do not think there would 
really be any advantage in these partitions, although there might 
be. But all fish travel against the current, and the minute you 
commence to draw a pond all your fish seek the way the water is 
coming from and go against it, and your fish go to the upper 
end of your pond, so that you would have to resort to seining. 
Anyway you can seine as many as you want and leave the balance. 
All stations should have good nursery ponds. And if you can- 
not use all your fish at once, you can hold them over two or three 
weeks. That is the way I do—still the plan offers some ad- 
vantages under certain circumstances. 
