Careful Stocking and Handling
Essential to Good Fishpond
(This the last of throe article* by
Vera* E. Davidson, Biologist, and
W "V. Stevens, Soil Conservatlao
lst, Sail Conservation Service.)
in two previous articles we dis
cussed two important features of
satisfactory fishponds ? (1) good
construction on a suitable site, and
(1) the fertility of the water. Ilia
third problem Is: how to manage
the fish themselves? To solve this
third problem, there are five es
?en tial things to do:
1. Be sure there are no fish In
the pond before you stock 'it with
hatchery fingerllngs. You can be
sure of thifc only if you seine the
pond with a minnow seine and find
no fish of any kind. If you catch
finger ling fish, you cannot stock
correctly until yvu kill those wild
fish which are present. No use to
stock 1,000 to 1,500 blue gills and 100
bass per acre into a pond with a
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population o t untold numbers.
3. Early tall stocking of a pood 1
with bluegllls is beat; either Au- '
fust or September, but November
or even December are Aot too late.
II bluegllls are to attain a 4 -ounce
sise, and if overpopulation la to be
prevented the second year, a pond
must be stocked before January.
Bass riiould be stocked In the
^>ring following the fall stocking
with blueglll.
S. Don't fish either the blue* '
gills or bass until the bass have
been in your pond nearly a year.
Otherwise you will find your first
hatch of bluegllls beginning to ov
erpopulate the pond the second
year. Maintain good fertility
feed the fish well ? from early
spring until fall every year.
4. Begin fishing as soon as you
can find little bass around the edge
which you know were hatched in
the pond. This should be in Kay ?
(sometimes as early as April or
as late as June) when your origi
nal bass are about one year old.
Don't guess about it. To be sure,
catch a few In your minnow seine. '
The way to determine if it is a bass
is to look at the size of its mouth.
You can be sure it is a baas if its
mouth will open as large as its ]
body. Whan you find these finger- ]
ling bass, you know your original i
stocking with fish turned out sue- ;
cessfully. Tou are ready to begin
fishing.
5. Fish your bass lightly for the
first month or two. Many ponds
have been hurt by heavy bass re- i
moval in the opening weeks.. Hea
vy fishing is all right after July. ]
Fishing is poor m many farm
ponds because the fish population
is too numerous. We call it an ov
erpopulation. But "overpopulation"
does not mean too many pan-size
too many 1 ? to 2 ? inch
fingerling fish. You cannot have
to many of either. You want large
quantities of catchable size; and
large numbers of little fingerlings
which are your bass-food. Over,
population means too many blue
gills 2 to 6 inches long (less than
2 ounces each in weight). You can
avoid this condition; or you can
correct the condition if it occurs.
You will need help from some
one with a lot of fishpond exper
ience to correct a poor population.
UDSA Farmer's Bulletin 2094 will
suggest the correction possible. Its
information that will help you a
void troublesome fish populations,
and will help you manage the water
and fish for good fishing.
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A local dhapter of the National
Beta Club, a leadership-service
Drganization for high-school stu
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Mrs. Pope T. Singleton, teacher
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Land which has been placed in
the Soil Bank - either the Acre
age Reserve or the Conservation
Reserve ? is still eligible for Fed
eral cost-sharing in carrying out
practices under the Agricultural
Conservation Program (ACP), A.
J. Barton, Chairman of the Agri
cultural Stabilization and Conser
vation County Committee, remind
ed Cherokee farmers this week.
But applications for cost-sharing
for conservation practices must
be filed with the County ASC Com
mittee before any practice is un
dertaken Barton said. The County
Committee is also the best source
of information about which prac
tices are approved for ACP cost
sharing in the County this year.
Since approved practices are not
the same in every county, it is im
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ASC office, Barton stressed. The
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include those that are considered
most needed in that area.
Applications are now being re
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County office. All applications for
approved practice that are
received in time for consideration
under this year's program will re
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Barton.
If ACP practices are carried out
on land placed in the Soil Bank,
the Soil Bank provisions of no graz
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be met. Some practices which are
not eligible for assistance under
the Conservation Reserve are eli
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