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is so you can control it and clean it out in the fall, it makes no 
difference whether it is 100 or 1,000 feet in diameter. I do not 
see that it makes any difference, only that the ponds of the sizes 
that we have here are very much handier than larger sizes would 
be. When you commence to ship you can clean that pond and 
ship your fish, whereas in a big pond you have got to draw the 
whole pond down in order to get the fish anyway, although you 
may not want all the fish. 
‘Secretary Peabody: You remember Mr. Beeman told the 
association that he had discovered that the female bass spawned 
several times during the season. What is your judgment about 
that now ? 
Mr. Lydell: JI never have actually seen the female bass 
spawn the second time. I think however that some females do 
spawn a second time. I know a female bass will spawn partly on 
one bed and go to another bed with another male and spawn 
there. 
Mr. Titcomb: Both small and large mouth bass ? 
Mr. Lydell: I am speaking of the small mouth bass. 
Mr. Nevin: Do you think roily water affects them ? 
Mr. Lydell: I think so—if it is during the spawning season. 
Mr. Nevin: In the Mississippi River it is very roily, and that 
seems to make no difference. 
Mr. Lydell: It will drift in here and settle on our beds an 
inch and a half deep in one night. 
