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Show BLACK DA8S 18 A 8AVAGE. A Finny Butcher That Kills for the Pleasure of Slaughter. Tho bass Is llko a roaring Hon going go-ing about seeking whom ho may devour. de-vour. I havo Beon a good-sized specimen speci-men got Into a school of minnows and cat nnd stuff until ho could not get any moro into his capacious lnsldcs, then go off by himself, throw up what ho had enten, and begin ovor agnln, aftor which ho would keop on killing tho poor lnnocont minnows, apparently ap-parently for tho moro pleasure of killing. Vory young bass will attack minute- wntor life which flourishes on water plants and get away with ovory ono In sight, adopting tho samo moth-od moth-od as their eldors. To lllustrato tho oxtent of tho cannibalism ot tho black bass here Is the experience ot a superintendent su-perintendent of ono of tho fish hatch-erlos hatch-erlos in Pennsylvania: "Tho suporlntondent made an actual act-ual count of 20,000 young bass about an Inch long and placed them in a fry pond by thomsolvos. IIo gave them food six times a day, and, according ac-cording to his stntomont, each flsh atn Its own weight of tho propnrod food ovory 24 hours. Thoy woro plncod in a pond of tho 1st of July, nnd on October 1, whon they wero taken out. there wero only 11,000, nnd tho rocord showed thnt loss than 200 died from sickness. It Is reasonable to supposo, thoroforo, that In addition addi-tion to tho food given them by tho suporlntondent thoro were about 9,000 bass devoured by their stronger and moro fortunnte companions." W. E. Mcelnin, In Fiold nnd Stream. |
