BuL. U. S. B. F., 1908. 



Plate LXXXV 



Fig. 17.— Both trout and bass are cultivated at many of the stations. This view of the station at Manchester, Iowa, 

 shows stock ponds in foreground, then the smaller nursery ponds, all of these for trout and built of cement. 

 Beyond, in front of the hatchery building, is a bass pond, with earth bottom and sides. 



Fig. iS. — Preparing a shipment of smallmouth bass. Tanks used for hardening the young fish i>rior In transitortntion. 

 The fingerlings are held for 12 hours in cold spring water, then dipped into tubs, counted into pails, and transferred 

 to the transportation cans. These are then placed under a ^-inch stream of spring water and held until train time. 

 For an early luoruiug shipment the fish are "canned" the evening before. (Mammoth Spring station, Arkansas.) 



