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Then we counted 335,036 eggs to the quart, with the diameter 
of the eggs .127. Now in order to get the number to the quart 
you come down to 127 on the scale and run down till you strike 
this curve, and here should be the actual number to the quart. 
Supposing you are propagating some new species like the rock 
fish and in a new field; it is a long and tedious task when busy 
with your work to find out what the aggregate number of eges is 
to the quart. But you take the httle trough and get your dia- 
meter and find that the diameter is .150 say. You run out here 
on the 150 line of the curve and it reads 20,000. This appears 
to me as very interesting and very original. 
President: You have heard this most interesting summary 
of experiments of the bureau of fisheries. Do they suggest any 
remarks ? 
Mr. Meehan: The reference, by Mr. Titcomb, to the lake in 
Pennsylvania is interesting. The conditions in that lake are so 
extraordinary that a little more detail might be interesting. 
That lake is in Pike county, Pennsylvania and was formerly 
known as Knob pond, now Lake Laura. The lake was stocked 
with black bass in 187), when about 40 fish were placed there. 
In 1873 that lake was literally alive with black bass of a large 
size. The lake is a genuine kettle hole lake, that is, a spring 
lake, on the side of a moraine. The greater part of its area is 
shallow, but there are depths ranging from 40 to 50 feet. It 
covers an area of about 400 acres. The bottom is covered with 
boulders left there by the ice. In 1873 the lake was literally 
alive with bait fish; there were yellow perch and roach or shin- 
ers and crayfish. Today there is not a living creature in that 
lake excepting the black bass, except there may be an odd 
sunfish or two, something of that sort. The fish are very 
small. ‘To give you an idea how small they really are, four years 
ago five gentlemen undertook to fish and they put up a jackpot 
on the largest fish that was caught. The five men went out and 
caught 250 bass, and a nine inch bass took the jackpot. That 
will show more clearly than anything else how small these fish 
really are. I doubt if the average length exceeds 6 or 61% inches. 
Bass six years old and four or five inches in length are rather 
curious. ‘The lake is simply alive with them. I was there when 
