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Mr. Lydell: I do not think it is overstocked now. (Laugh- 
ter. ) 
Mr. Bower: Here is another specimen of small-mouth bass 
with a large-mouth bass recently removed from its stomach. 
Here is another bottle containing a large-mouth bass that had 
just recently swallowed another bass. The stomach is distended 
and distorted. 
Mr. Jordan in some of his writings has quite a good deal to 
say about the voracity of Pacific salmon, and indeed they are 
wonderful feeders and growers; but I think that in the earlier 
stages at least they are not in the same class with large-mouth 
bass, or even with the small-mouth bass. He says that a salmon 
never eats except when it is hungry, which is all the time, and 
then it eats a little between meals for its stomach’s sake. 
(Laughter.) ‘To show the difference in growth I exhibit to you 
a specimen of Pacific salmon fifty days old, and you can com- 
pare this specimen with bass of the same age and find the former 
to be very much smaller. I do not think there is a fish that 
swims that is so avaricious as the bass in its earliest stages. In 
fact, if I were asked by anyone to suggest a design for a combina- 
tion of greed, voracity and gluttony I would call attention to the 
bass as being the best emblem of that combination possible to be 
obtained. 
Dr. Johnson: I do not want to do all the talking but I want 
to learn a little bit more, for I came down here rather as a stu- 
dent than a teacher. This question about preparation of blood 
is interesting, but why is it necessary to add rennet to blood? 
Is it to make it more digestible, or to make a stronger coagulum 
only ? 
There is one little point in these so-called artificial foods that 
rather surprises me, which has not been touched upon at all, in 
the preparation. It would seem to me that the addition of ordi- 
nary salt would be beneficial in a great many ways. Now we 
know that trouts are very fond of anything that is salt. I have 
proven that simply by trying to get the best of a fish hog that I 
once ran into who each and every day always selected a certain 
pool and would not let me fish in it. I did not want many of his 
fish, but I wanted his room, and his disappearance once in a 
