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lake, ninety miles east of Pittsburg, was carried, out very 

 successfully under the direction of Mr. W. A. Mcintosh, 

 vice-president of the club. 



The fish vi'erc placed in fifteen oak casks, three feet high, 

 and three feet in diameter, and five galvanized iron tanks, 

 five feet high, and three feet in diameter. The water was 

 kept at the proper temperature by adding ice occasionally, 

 and aerated by means of a large air-pump and fifty feet of 

 one-inch rubber hose, at one end of which was a series of 

 perforated tin tubes. A large tin tube also ran along above 

 the casks, with a small dependent tube ending in a sprink- 

 ler leading to the top of each cask, into which water was 

 poured and entered the casks in a fine spray. 



The bass weighed from three-fourths of a pound to two 

 and one-half pounds, averaging one and a half pounds 

 each. The females were heavy with spawn, as the season 

 was backward. They were on the road, from Sandusky to 

 the lake, some thirty hours, with a loss of only sixty fish, 

 or ten per cent. The bass prospered well in the lake, as 

 myriads of young bass, six or eight inches long, were per- 

 ceived the following year. 



They multiplied rapidly for several years, affording fine 

 fishing for the members of the club and their friends. 

 Eventually, however, the dam inclosing the lake gave way 

 under the pressure of a great fiood, and the appalling 

 disastei* at Johnstown was the result. 



Not only in our own country have new waters been suc- 

 cessfully stocked with both species of black bass, but they 

 have been transplanted to England, as mentioned, also to 

 Scotland, Germany and the Netherlands. 



A later notice of those taken to England is as follows : 



" Of twelve hundred black bass brought from the United States 

 by Mr. W. T. Silk, one hundred and forty were placed in the 



