68 Book of the Black Bass. 



and instructive, and is taken from the Report of the U. S. 

 Fish Commissioner for the years 1873-73 : 



"Among numerous records of their introduction, in very few 

 instances discriminating properly between the two species, we give 

 the following: In 1850, twenty-seven live bass were brought by 

 Mr. Samuel Tisdale, of East Wareham, Mass., from Saratoga 

 Lake and put into Flax Lake, near his home. In the years 1851 

 and 1852, others were brought to the number of two hundred and 

 reared in ponds in the vicinity. The matter was kept quiet and 

 fishing discouraged for five years, when the fish were found to 

 have increased very rapidly. Some twenty-five ponds were stocked 

 in the same county after Mr. Tisdale had initiated the experiment. 

 Afterward, black bass from Mr. Tisdale's ponds were supplied to 

 a lake in New Hampshire in 1867, and to waters in Connecticut 

 and Massachusetts. In 1866 the Cuttyhunk Club, of Massachu- 

 setts, introduced black bass into a pond in their grounds. In the 

 year 1869 the Commissioners of the State, together with private 

 parties, stocked several ponds and the Concord River with black 

 bass, and in the following year other waters were stocked. 



" In Connecticut, in the winter of 1852-53, the black bass was 

 introduced into Waramang Lake, in Litchfield county. They were 

 brought from a small lake in Dutchess County, New York. A few 

 years later they were said to have increased greatly. Another 

 lake in the same county was stocked not long afterward. 



" Salstonstall Lake, near New Haven ; East Hampton Pond, in 

 Chatham; Winsted Pond, in Winchester, and many ponds and 

 lakes of the state, particularly in the northwest portion, were 

 stocked with the black bass previous to the year 1867. 



"In the years 1869, 1870, 1871, and 1872, thirty-seven lakes 

 and ponds in diflFerent parts of the state were supplied with black 

 bass. 



"As early as 1864 or 1865 black bass had been put into Rust's 

 Pond, near Wolfborough, New Hampshire; in 1868 a few were 

 brought to Charlesto\vn and Lakes Massabesic, Sunapee, Penna- 

 cook, and Echo, and Enfield, Wilson's and Cocheco Ponds were 

 well stocked; in 1870 and 1871 the New Hampshire Commission- 

 ers introduced the black bass from Lake Champlain into the 

 waters of the state at Meredith, Canaan, Webster, Canterbury, 



