164 Thirty-Third Annual Meeting 
President Clark: I received instructions from Mr. Titcomb 
to hold these fish for fall distribution. 
Mr. Lydell: I think in regard to planting those fish the 
same as you do. About the time they leave the shore and disap- 
pear is the time to get them out and plant them. Of those fish 
that we have there of the various sizes of the same age, there 
were about 50,000 put into this pond. I think if we had shipped 
them at the size you recommended we would have shipped 40,000 
or 45,000 out of that pond—perhaps more. We did not do it and 
commenced shipping a couple of weeks later; and we have 
shipped 10,000 or 12,000 and there are probably 4,000 or 5,000 
left in the pond, and I doubt if there will be a thousand of those 
there this fall. The smallest fish in that vial are a great deal 
smaller than they were about two weeks ago. One of the em- 
ployes at the hatcheries wanted to know what was the matter 
with the fish in pond No. 1. I said, “Nothing.” He said, ‘They 
are getting smaller.” I said, “We have grown them up to finger- 
ling and we are going to grow them back to fry, and start all over 
again.” (Laughter.) I do not think those smallest fish have 
advanced a particle in a month, and then is when they ought to 
have been shipped. I think the time to plant these fish is when 
they are baby fingerling, or fingerling. 
Mr. Stranahan: We have found by carefully watching our 
shipments into Florida, Alabama and Mississippi, in the hands 
of pretty good men, such as Mr. Cunningham and Mr. Brown 
who have been directed to observe the results carefully, that we 
could do the best work and get rid of our fish (and we had to get 
rid of them or overstock our ponds) by planting that smallest 
size which you have there, which is about an inch long. We can 
handle a thousand black bass in a ten-gallon can of that size, and 
where we have taken them right out and counted an estimated 
thousand we have found 1,300. You are pretty apt to under- 
estimate such small fish, and my opinion is for the large-mouth 
bass south, that a size if anything a little smaller than your 
smallest lot, is the best size to be shipped, becasue of the large 
numbers that can be handled and of the great success we have 
had in handling small fry. We have gone long distances without 
the use of very much ice. 
