162 Thirty-Third Annual Meeting 
all cases, that the time to ship bass is in the baby fingerling or 
fingerling stage. 
President Clark produced seven bottles of small-mouth bass 
as follows: 
1. Northville station, small-mouth bass, ten days old, June 
7, 1904, specimens about half inch long. 
%. Same twenty-one days old, June 18, 1904, an inch long. 
3. Same twenty-seven days old, June 24, 1904, one and one- 
half inch long. 
4. Thirty-one days old, June 28, 1904, about one and three- 
fourths inches long. 
5. Forty days old, July 7, 1904, about two inches long. 
6. Forty-six days old, July 12, 1904, about two and one- 
fourth inches long. 
7. Fifty-six days old, July 22, 1904, about two and one- 
half inches long. 
Mr. Brown: I want to ask if you have any idea after you 
have distributed the fish to the citizens how many of the fish 
have been taken out in the middle of the lake and deposited and 
consequently your work nullified; or what has been done to edu- 
cate the people as to the proper place to put the fish? I have 
personally seen so much ignorance displayed in the disposition 
of trout and bass that have been delivered to people for distribu- 
tion, that I have sometimes felt almost discouraged. J! think 
there ought to be concerted action used in furnishing informa- 
tion, both by circulars and papers, as to where the bass should be 
placed. 
Mr. Seymour Bower: As far as our commission is concerned 
it is not our fault if the fish are not placed in the proper places. 
We send out a notification in advance, advising date of delivery, 
with full directions where to place them, and we have a label on 
the top of each can that repeats the same directions. We cannot 
control the fish after they leave our hands, and no doubt in some 
cases the fish are wasted, but I think that the great majority of 
