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Thirty-fifth Annual Meeting 
put in enough water to the meat to make it just the same as 
your wife makes mush out of corn meal—thick and a little 
crumbly. Where we feed it to small bass we take it in our hands 
and loosen it up and scoop it up over the water. The bass, cat- 
fish and croppy fry or fingerling pick it right up as they go, and 
they fatten on it. 
Saturday evening we had something peculiar happen. I was 
walking along after the men had fed the fish. They practically 
had got through, and I passed a small mouth bass pond where I 
had this in, and as I was walking along noticing the west pond I 
saw a fish coming out of the deep water. He made a dart for the 
shore, and when within a foot of 1t whirled on his head with his 
mouth open and darted around. I asked for a cheese-cloth net 
and caught him and found he was dead. I examined him and 
found nothing on the outside that showed any signs of injury. 
I took him up to the house where I had a strong glass and ex- 
amined him again and found nothing. His scales were as bright 
as could be; he measured two inches; his stomach was not over- 
loaded but nice and full. I took my knife out and opened him 
and examined his gills, but there was nothing there and nothing 
in his throat. I opened him from one end to the other and I 
found undigested food, that he had just swallowed, and food that 
he had in his stomach and was digesting. I know it was not the 
Chicago food that caused his death, because that was not di- 
gested. What killed him I don’t know. There was only one 
thing peculiar, and whether that was natural or not I cannot say 
—the food was a little bit gummy. But there were hundreds of 
fish right around him that ate that, and that is the first of it 
that I discovered. My opinion is he was caught by another fish, 
was too large to be eaten, got away, and died from the effects of 
it, but when I found no marks, I used a strong glass on him and 
even then I could not find anything; but I cannot blame the 
Chicago meat, because it would have affected the others, and | 
think I have got as plump a lot of fish as anyone. 
Mr. Titeomb: You drew your pond in September to get 
those fish ? 
Ac YWesesin: 
(). And the fish were not sorted in the meantime ? 
