WHAT I HAVE SEEN OF BLACK BASS. 
BY SAMUEL LOVEJOY, OF BULLOCHYVILLE, .GEORGIA. 
Five years ago we began feeding our adult bass with cut 
mullet. We throw our feed into the pond and the bass take it 
readily. I have seen taken out of the same pond eleven tubs of 
pollywogs. I have seen fingerlings swimming within a distance 
of ten inches of the adults which paid no attention to them; but 
if we catch a fingering and throw him back into the pond he 
will be caught before he strikes the water. The same way with 
the pollywogs. Therefore to feed adult bass by throwing the 
feed in the pond to them will stop cannabalism. At the same 
time if we put new or wild fish in the pond they will catch the 
fingerlings for a while until they learn to eat from the hand. I 
have seen some few adults dash into a school of fry. The new 
ones before they learn to take the food stay around in the shallow 
water, while the tame ones swim in the deep water where we feed 
them. I have seen more baby fingerlings taken out of ponds 
where fingerlings were scattered all over the pond, than where 
there were no fingerlings. I think that wild adults do more 
harm in eating fry than fingerlings do. I believe fry of the same 
school (the overgrown ones) will eat each other. I have seen 
yearlings swallow fish very near their size when thrown among 
them as we feed them. Then you can put the same sized min- 
nows in the pond and let them swim up to the bass and they will 
not pay any attention to them. ! think that it is caused by 
feeding from the hand. I beheve that feeding from the hand 
by throwing the food into the pond will go a long ways towards 
stopping cannabalism. 
DISCUSSION. 
Mr. Stranahan: This paper is by one of my assistants, a 
colored man. 
Mr. Lydell: I have had no experience in feeding fry, but I 
have had experience in the feeding of adults. You take the 
seine and seine the minnows out of the pond, go up on the bank, 
throw them out into the pond, and they are readily taken. 
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