QUESTIONS FOR THE QUESTION BOX, AMERICAN 
FISHERIES SOCIETY. 
BY JOHN L. LEARY, SUPT., SAN MARCOS STATION, BUREAU OF 
FISHERIES. 
1. Can anyone tell how to distinguish the sex of black bass, 
with certainty other than by eviscerating ? 
2. Have artifical nests, after thorough trial, proved satis- 
factory ? 
3. Have you ever transferred black bass fry, just after they 
rise from the nest, to nursery ponds and held until two to four 
inches long, and with what results ? 
4. Have you ever stocked up an apphicant’s pond with black 
bass fry just after the food-sac has been absorbed, and watched 
the results ? 
5. Which do you think gives best results planted in small 
streams, lakes and ponds, fry or fish ? 
6. In pond culture have you found it best to impound your 
fish in small areas, or allow them to nest at will? 
7. Do you approve of feeding your brood fish between the 
seasons of spawning ? 
8. Do you in your pond work, find it necessary to clean your 
ponds every season after getting rid of your young fish ? 
9. Do you find much trouble in handling crappie (the young 
for distribution) in very warm weather ? 
Nore: What I mean by fry is from the time the embryo 
leaves the egg to the time the food-sae is absorbed, and fish, from 
the time they are one or more inches long. 
DISCUSSION. 
Secretary: I would like to say that a conversation | had this 
morning with Mr. Seymour Bower related to one of these ques- 
tions and therefore I think it would be important to those who 
are raising bass, to have some of these questions answered, 1f not 
all. ‘The question I refer to was this: 
“In pond culture have you found it best to impound your 
