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far from it. Brook-trout are being exterminated 

 fast enough, owing to the changed natural condi- 

 tions of the streams and their surroundings, 

 without adding another contestant for the limited 

 supply of food in such waters. 



Both species of black-bass have been intro- 

 duced into Germany, France, Russia, and the 

 Netherlands. In Germany, especially, they have 

 found a permanent home. It was my privilege 

 materially to assist Herr Max von dem Borne, 

 of Berneuchen, with such advice as enabled him 

 to start on a sure footing in his enterprise, and 

 with such subsequent success in its establishment 

 that he published several brochures on the black- 

 bass to meet the demand for information as to its 

 habits and merits as a game- and food-fish. An 

 effort was made some years ago to introduce the 

 black-bass into English waters, but without suc- 

 cess, owing to a want of knowledge as to the 

 proper species to experiment with. The small- 

 mouth bass was placed in weedy ponds or small 

 lakes in which only the large-mouth bass would 

 live. 



The small-mouth bass thrives only in compara- 

 tively clear, cool, and rocky or gravelly streams, 

 and in lakes and ponds supplied by such streams 



