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deputy warden. The Bass Lake Improvement Asso- 

 ciation helps defray the expenses. This association is 

 made up of the local merchants, hotel keepers, and 

 cottagers, and all contribute to its support. 



Their plant is very modest, consisting of only four 

 ponds each about one hundred feet square, and the 

 water is obtained by tapping a near-by spring. With 

 this little equipment they raise and put into the lake 

 thousands of bass every year and in a few years they 

 no doubt will have one of the best bass fishing lakes 

 in the Middle West. The Association is fortunate 

 in having such a conscientious and efficient warden 

 and propagator as Mr. Peter Lavery; also in the fact 

 that the lake is exceptionally well stocked with min- 

 nows so that the breeding bass are fed on them the 

 year round. 



Improvement associations are not uncommo'n around 

 resort waters, but few of them accomplish much. The 

 Bass Lake Association is an example that others ,could 

 follow to very good advantage. 



The organization of casting clubs to interest the 

 people in scientific angling, then the improvement as* 

 sociation, then the local hatchery and the enforce- 

 ment of reasonable laws, especially as regards pollu- 

 tion all these are needed to bring the native game 

 fishes back to our waters and before many years have 

 passed this method of conservation, we believe, will 

 be common throughout the settled portions of the 

 United States. 



Starting a bass breeding plant is surprisingly simple. 



