bo FISH CULTURAL ASSOCIATION, 
seed-sowing. The markets of Washington, Baltimore, Rich- 
mond, and other cities, are supplied with the numerous progeny 
of those few fishes. The members of several angling-clubs find 
health and recreation in the pursuit of these game-fish. The 
dealers in fishing-tackle secure greatly increased business from 
the demand for rods, lines, and flies, especially adapted for their - 
capture. 
But the good deed was repeated by some other unknown ben- 
efactor of his race. Bass from the Potomac were transported to 
the Susquehanna and Delaware. They have increased with great 
rapidity, and the markets of nearly every ‘town and city of the 
great states of Pennsylvania and New Jersey are abundantly 
supplied. y 
It will be admitted by all who are familiar with the recent 
great popularity of Greenwood Lake as a summer resort, that 
the chief attraction is found in the black-bass fishing. Thousands 
of dollars are annually expended there, which but for these fish 
would flow in other directions. 
But I desire to put on record the history of the introduction 
of black bass into the state of Maine. From the year 1860, in 
company with friends from other states, I had annuaily taken 
large numbers of the famous Rangeley trout, a goodly weight 
of which were transported out of the state of Maine, to become 
the witnesses of what Maine alone produced, and to serve as 
advertisements in drawing others to that region. In 1867 I 
brought to New York forty-three Rangeley trout, weighing from 
two to ten pounds, averaging five pounds each ; the two large t, 
male and female, respectively weighed teu and eight and a quar- 
ter pounds, were alive. 
The ten-pound trout is now exposed ina glass case at Mr. 
Blackford’s, in Fulton Market. 
In 1868 I brought home in the same car thirty-three trout, from 
one and a half to two pounds each. 
These experiences determined me to attempt to transport 
black bass to the Pine Tree State. Certainly some return in fish 
kind was due. 
The following summer, accompanied by four friends, we took 
