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Whether it is due to lack of swiftness in pursuing the minnows 
or not, I do not know, but there are worlds of minnows in the 
pond, but the larger fish do not get them. 
President: Do you kill the minnows? 
Mr. Lydell: Yes, or feed them alive. Probably they could 
not catch them when they were in the pond naturally. 
Mr. Stranahan: I would say to brother Lydell that I do 
not think that it is the only reason, because they cannot catch 
minnows, for the reason that we propagate tadpoles in enormous 
quantities, taking sometimes out of an acre pond seyen or eight 
washtubs full of tadpoles in the fall when we draw the pond 
down; and it is one of our main sources of food supply. You can 
see the tadpoles numerously among the bass, which pay no atten- 
tion to them, but seine out a pailful and throw them in and the 
bass will take them until their bellies are absolutely distended. 
I believe Mr. Lovejoy is correct in many of his observations. 
Abundant feeding is the best means of preventing cannabalism ; 
then later when that danger is over, cut the feeding down. 
Mr. Lydell: We have worlds of tadpoles in Mill Creek, but 
not with the adult bass. We get probably half a pailful of large 
sized tadpoles in a seining. I think they are young tadpoles 
from last year, but we do not find any where our adult fish are, 
but they are all in where our fry are. The adults seem to have 
cleaned them all up. 
Mr. Titcomb: I think the point of feeding during the 
breeding season is one to be considered, and I would suggest that 
those superintendents who advocate the partitioning off of the 
breeding bass, the brood stock, from the rest of the pond, try 
both methods. At the Fish Lakes station where Mr. Green is 
superimtendent, we have taken away some of the partitions and 
allowed the large mouthed black bass to make nests wherever 
they please. All of the adult fish are fed every day, and we find 
that the adult bass do very little feeding upon the young; canna- 
balism is confined almost entirely to the young fish. Seining 
of these ponds is begun when the fish are at the youngest stage 
shown by Mr. Clark, but some of them get to be four to six 
