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A. No sir—the water was too deep. 
Q. How many did you get out of this pond? 
A. Fully 100,000. T put 200,000 in, but my loss I attributs 
ed to the extra large bass that were im there. 
Q. How large a pond have you? 
A. I think it is about 200 by 170 feet wide. 
(. You refer to the small mouth bass ? 
A. Yes. I can raise more small mouth bass in the same 
amount of water than I can large mouth. 
Q. What was the average temperature through the summer ? 
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A. I have not kept the full temperature record; but my tem- 
perature has, in the lower pond, run up as high as 90°. In my 
spring pond, where we used altogether spring water, it never ex- 
ceeds 60° one hundred feet from the main spring. 
Q. The one you had 100,000 in? 
A. That was 78° Sunday. 
(). You have a constant flow of water through that pond ? 
A. Not as heavy as it is here in Mill Creek. 
Mr. Clark: Did you take 109,000 out towards the fall ? 
A. The 15th of September. 
Q. Out of a pond 170 by 200? 
A. Yes—it may be 250—but those fish were fed twice a 
day, and any quantity of insects were in there. The fish were just 
estimated—I had a net when I delivered to the car, and I count- 
ed that net full, and I use so many nets full to every bucket or 
every can that goes to the car. 
IT might add that we raise not only bass but catfish. 
Mr. Titcomb: What kind of catfish do you cultivate ? 
Mr. Morcher: Marble cat. Where they get them from |] 
don’t know. They were gotten by a man that had a hatchery in 
Waverley. The state rented it of him for ten years. Then | 
took hold of the London hatchery and moved them there. 
