ELEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING. 19 
James Benkard, also an efficient member of our executive com- 
mittee, will market four thousand (4,000) pounds of artificially- 
bred brook trout. Scores of other associations and individuals 
will add their-quota. Never before have so many thousands of 
people thronged the principal fish dealer’s stalls to inspect the 
marvelous display of the salmon family, embracing specimens 
from fifteen States, Canada, and New Brunswick. 
Magnificent marble and plate-glass aquariums permitted the 
noble fish to deposit in their native element. Lovely flowers, 
graceful shrubs, delicious green moss, exquisite porcelain and 
majolica added their attraction to the display. Truly the open- 
ing of the trout season of ’82 was a most notable triumph for 
the American Fish-Cultural Association. We could: say, as 
did Cornelia, the Roman matron, “ These are our jewels.” 
BLACK BASS. 
It hardly seems credible that any one can question the prac- 
ticability of cultivating our waste water, in view of the absolutely 
demonstrated results of black bass planting. 
Not three score years ago a few bass were transferred, via the 
Baltimore and Ohio R.R., from the Ohio to the Potomac—a 
few years later from the Potomac to the Susquehanna, less than 
fifteen years ago from the Susquehanna to the Delaware. In 
1869 I took the first black bass to Maine. And now what are 
the facts? I refer you to the fish markets not only of all our 
principal cities, but the interior towns. This fish, admittedly as 
good on the table as it is game on the hook, is now more com- 
mon than the pickerel and cheaper than white fish. So rapidly 
have the thirty-one deposited by me in Maine in ’69 increased 
that a hundred lakes and ponds are fairly populated by their 
progeny. Summer hotels and cottages have been erected on 
some of the lakes, and thousands of visitors have been attracted 
to them almost entirely in consequence of the abundance of the 
black bass. Several of our prominent authorities pronounce 
this the “coming fish.” One of the latest and best works on 
fish and fishing is exclusively devoted to the bass. Rod and’ fly 
makers finda constantly increasing demand for special black 
bass tackle. A large number of clubs have been organized 
