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have the most lish in them; on the contrary 

 they have the fewest, although the fish are 

 larger. And fish breed faster in ponds with 

 plenty of shallo^v water and sunshine than in 

 deep water shadowed by trees. 



Mr. A. S. Kascoe, owner of an old mill pond 

 in Bertie County that is two miles long, which 

 afforded excellent sport Avith both bass and a 

 large variety of speckled- perch until a few years 

 ago, noticed that the, perch were becoming very 

 scarce and also that the bass would not take 

 any sort of bait. He let the water run out and 

 found very few perch but a great many big bass, 

 weighing 5 or 6 pounds, and millions of shad 

 roaches. His theory, probably correct, is that 

 the bass being unable to get at the roaches in 

 the shallow ^vater and amongst the thick under- 

 growtli turned upon and destroyed the perches; 

 so that the roaches being, practically immune 

 from attack, fed upon the spawn of both bass 

 and perch while their OAvn spawn was, like 

 themselves, comparatively exempt from the 

 depredation of other fishes. 



Mr. Eascoc is now at a loss to know how to 



