ILLUSTRATIONS 



Portrait of the Author Frontispiece 



PACING 

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Breeding-Ponds for Black Bass or Sun-fish 8 



An Ideal Pond for Brood-Baas 8 



Bass Hatchery at Mill Creek, Mich., Showing Retaining 



Wall to Prevent Flooding 12 



Large-mouthed Black Bass (Micropterus salmoides) . . 24 

 Small-mouthed Black Bass (Micropterus Dolomieu) . . 24 



Cribs Surrounding Bass Nests 42 



Pond for Calico, or Grass, Bass, at Linlithgo, N. Y. . . 48 

 The Pumpkin-Seed or Sutt-fish (Lepomis gibbosua) . . 54 



The Long-Eared Sun-fish (Lepomis auritus) 54 



The Calico, Grass, Bass (Pomoxys sparoides) .... 56 



The Rock-Bass (Ambloplites rupestris) 56 



Yellow Cat-fish (Leptops olivaris) 60 



Common Bullhead (Ameiurus nebulosus) 60 



Methods of Shading Trout Ponds 96 



Intake from a Trout Pond 104 



A Dam and Covered Raceway 104 



A Trout Hatching-trough 116 



Feeding Mature Trout 116 



Chain-Pickerel, in an Aquarium 200 



Striped Bass (Roccus lineatus) 214 



Common, or White, Sucker (Catoatomus teres) .... 214 



