148 Thirty-Third Annual Meeting 
Mr. Leary: Yes. I did not say that was necessary—I say 
if you have fish left over from shipment, put them in your 
nursery pools and keep them. We have in the upper part of 
the river where I am located, a very large supply of minnows 
this year. 
Mr. Clark: But with the younger fish would you not keep 
them in the larger pond and distribute them from these if you 
had plenty of food, in preference to taking them out and plac- 
ing them in nursery ponds? 
Mr.-Leary: Yes. I said if you had abundance of food in 
your ponds let them stay longer. It is only when your ponds 
are exhausted of food that you should take them out. 
President Clark: Speaking only of the large fish? 
Mr. Leary: No, the small fish too—never take fry or very 
small fish from their natural conditions; if you do a loss will 
follow. 
Mr. Stranahan: After three years of careful experimenting 
we have concluded it was a bad practice to move small fry like 
that (indicating fry from three-fourths to an inch in length) to 
fry ponds unless we are going to move them from the ponds 
within two or three days. If the male fish has abandoned the 
brood and it has become broken up into half a dozen little 
schools, they will become scattered around over the pond; and if 
we are not going to make shipments for two or three days, we 
take the little fellows out and put them in a small pond; but if 
they are going to be held a week or so, with all the feeding we 
can do we cannot succeed in saving very many of them. We will 
lose ninety per cent a week, if they are an inch long. 
Mr. Lydell: I am afraid that we are going to get mixed 
up. These gentlemen from the south are talking about large- 
mouth bass and you and I are speaking of small-mouth bass. 
We move our small-mouth bass to a nursery pond as soon as 
they rise up from the bed and commence to take food. They 
claim they cannot do that and do it successfully, but they are 
speaking of the large-mouth variety. The large-mouth bass that 
I have had experience with this year we moved to our nursery 
