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nearly the whole lot of eggs, rooted up the nests, and raised cain 
generally, only 6 good nests coming from this spawning. 
Fearing that the small mouth work at the Mill Creek Sta- 
tion was going a glimmering for 1906, I became desperate, and 
upon learning that 8. M. were being taken at Newaygo, from 
the Muskegon river, Mr. Otis Monroe, the foreman at the station 
was sent at once to that point. He returned with 20 nice speci- 
mens, which were placed in a spawning pond, and beds placed 
therein. These fish had not spawned when we put them in the 
pond, and have not yet done so to my knowledge. 
About the time that the fish were secured from Newaygo we 
learned that some 8S. M. were being taken below the dam here in 
Grand River. I immediately hied myself riverward and secured 
twenty-six more 8. M. specimens. These fish were little fellows, 
but healthy looking chaps, and as soft as mush. Twenty of these 
were placed in one of the smallest spawning ponds at the Station 
and six were put into one of the regular spawning ponds. From 
the twenty in the small pond we got seven as nice beds as I ever 
saw. They spawned the next day after being placed in the pond. 
From the six that were put in the regular spawning pond we got 
two nice beds, one pair spawning on the plank at the outlet, and 
the other pair spawned on the roots of an old stump that was left 
in the pond when it was built. They spawned before we had 
time to put in the gravel. This is the first time that I have ever 
got any fry from S$. M. bass introduced into the ponds in the 
spring, and I think that if these had been put in two weeks 
earlier nothing would have come from them. The latest that 
S. M. have know to spawn at Mill Creek occurred this year, one 
nice bed coming off the 22nd of June, 
The stock fish at the station are now in excellent condition, 
and are feeding nicely on liver, so we expect to get back into the 
old channel another year and do business again. 
The Large Mouth at Mill Creek have covered themselves with 
glory this season, and nothing farther could be asked of them. 
They commenced spawning in the fore part of May, and com- 
tinued to spawn until the middle of June. 
An experiment was tried in feeding some L. M. advanced fry 
this season that will no doubt be of interest to some of you. 
Five hundred of these fish all about 34 of an inch long were 
