146 Thirty-Third Annual Meeting 
Mr. Titcomb: You can have a supply in each one of those 
small ponds. 
Q. You can have extra inlets to each of the small ponds? 
A. You can have as many inlets as necessary, and supply 
each small pond separately. You reduce your large pond to a 
series of nursery ponds, practically. 
Mr. Stranahan: ‘This plan would not be at all feasible with 
us. We can always get out all the fish we want to make a ship- 
ment. We made extensive and quite expensive experiments in 
- fencing off, using chicken wire, to separate our adults from our 
fry, and it was an abject and complete failure, and resulted in 
the breaking up of our schools. The parent bass would come 
along the fence with his brood, a portion would get through and 
get separated, and schools were broken up long before they ought 
to be, and we had just to remove the fence. It resulted in the loss 
of a good many thousand fry for us two years ago, and we 
abandoned the idea, entirely. 
Mr. Lydell: I would like to ask Mr. Leary why he needs so 
much water. Is it on account of its being so warm in your 
locality ? 
Mr. Leary: The temperature gets very high, and we have 
to keep up a fair standard of fullness. We have nine months of 
summer. 
Mr. Stranahan: Nearer twelve. 
President Clark: I would lke to say a word or two, be- 
cause our experience this year has not been the same as Mr. 
Leary’s. You remember a year ago at the Woods Hole meeting, 
T told you that I was an infant in bass culture, and I think I 
am about in the second grade in the school—and I find that what 
experience we have had has been a little different from that of 
Messrs. Leary, Lydell, and Bower. I do not find that bass run 
up the current at all. They go down in the kettle especially 
small-mouth bass. 
Mr. Leary: I referred to the large-mouth bass. 
President Clark: I do not see any reason why we should 
