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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 





CLEANING UP A SMALL POND 



Just as millions of dollars of taxes are made up of the pennies collected on small pur- 

 chases of soda water and movie tickets, so 156,657,000 fishes were rescued from landlocked 

 ponds, many of them, like this one, little more than puddles after the waters subside. Thrift 

 in such little things makes national wealth. 



SEINING A SMALL POOL, POSSIBLY SIXTY FEET WIDE; FOUR MONTHS BEFORE IT 

 COVERED ABOUT TWELVE ACRES 



Y\ hen visited by a rescue party in November the pond had seeped and evaporated until it 

 was 14 inches deep, and was easily handled with a 25-foot seine. Ten kinds of fish, aggre- 

 gating 150,000, were saved. (See National Geographic Magazine for June, 1916, page =,72.) 



