182 Thirty-fourth Annual Meeting. 
©. What was your observation as to feeding on the young 
after that age? 
A. None at all. 
©. Have you observed the young fish feeding on each other 
A. I never saw them do it, but I have no doubt of it. 
(Mr. Clark produced bottles containing specimens of small- 
mouthed bass. ) 
Mr. Clark: You will notice in the largest specimen bottle 
where the fish are fifty-four days old, they measure three and 
one-quarter inches in length; and here are others of the same 
age which do not exceed one inch in length. These latter are 
starved fish and all were taken from the same pond. 
Mr. Lydell: Did you not have a later spawning with that 
sized fish? 
Mr. Clark: Possibly, but they were all put in that pond the 
very same day from the very same nest. 
Dr. Evermann: Fed in the same way? 
A. Yes, natural food. 
©. Are the sizes typical sizes? 
Ace aNeee 
Mr. Lydell: I understood those were left in the ponds with 
the old fish? 
A. No, they were not. 
In this connection I wish to state that I thought I had solved 
the problem why these fish were starved. Possibly I have, but 
it is not es clear as I thought it was, last Friday night when I 
told Mr. Ward Power in regard to it, and that I wanted the 
men to be sure to catch some of the fish for me on Saturday, 
some of the starved fish and some of the large fish that had es- 
caped from Pond N into that pond. All the fish in that pond 
seemed to be large. He said, all right, and they were there the 
next morning, and after dinner they went to work. The fish 
