122 Thirty-fifth Annual Meeting 
Mr. Meehan: It is only-one lake. 
Dr. Bean: Usually it is believed there is a good deal of 
cannibalism among these bass. Why don’t the biggest bass eat 
the smaller ones, and thus reduce the number, as occurs in other 
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places? If they have nothing else to feed upon, why do not they 
feed on one another ? 
Mr. Titeomb: They do feed on other food to some extent. 
There are shrimp there and other varieties of food under the 
rocks; there is quite a lot of insect hfe under small flat stones, 
but the race has become a stunted one, apparently for the lack 
of food. 
I have knowledge of a lake in Vermont, formerly inhabited 
by several species of common fishes; the bullheads are one of 
them, and the yellow perch another. It was stocked with small- 
mouth bass which cleaned out every other kind of fish in this 
pond, and then became a stunted race, the maximum weight of 
the fish being about 34 of a pound. Very hkely it was so in Lake 
Laura. We used the fish in the Vermont lake to stock larger 
lakes for several years. 
