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culturist asked me to go with him, and I did so. I wanted the 
larg’ tish out of that pond, where there are any quantities of 
vegetation, and this chara moss more than any other pond, and 
I thought that was why they were so large. We caught those 
and got as many specimens as I wanted, and then I told them to 
go across to the stunted pond and they did so, and they made 
two or three little hauls; and, by the way, we have a large 
quantity of shiners in that pond. That I thought was why these 
fish were starved, because their food had been destroyed by 
these shiners. 
Mr. Lydell: Are all of your fish in that particular pond of 
that size? 
Mr. Clark: Just a minute. No. They went across to the 
pond and got two or three specimens; they moved up the shore 
and the first thing they knew they got hold of a big one, which 
was quite strange. We got a few more specimens and they 
then went around and obtained quite a number of the large fish. 
That, of course, upset my theory. of the large fish in Pond Q, 
because here were some in this other pond also of large size. 
But I reasoned the problem out in this way, that the most of the 
fish in the pond were starved at an early period; the food that 
they should have had was eaten by the minnows, of which there 
was an enormous number. A number of them, however, suc- 
ceeded in getting a start sufficient to permit of their feeding on 
the starved bass and very little minnows. 
Mr. Lydell: Last year we held some fish in our screens 
too long before planting, and they never recovered. They were 
like Mr. Clark’s fish, they were starved. I did not know but 
perhaps you had held your fish in your screen too long before 
transferring them to the rearing pond. 
Mr. Clark: Here are some from other ponds transferred at 
the same time (showing specimens), and they are of good size. 
There was nothing of that kind. These fish were moved from 
the screens at the proper time. 
Mr. Lydell: In shipping this vear from Mill Creek our fish 
varied a great deal in size, but not as much as that. 
