The Male Bass And Young

A small-mouth black bass, the variety sought by anglers and the only kind caught about the islands in Lake Erie, says the Cleveland Press, attains a weight of about one pound in two years, at which time it also arrivés at maturity in a productive sense. It then fans off a clean place on the gravel, deposits eggs, which are iinpregnated by the male member of the family. when, contrary to the general rule laid down by nature, the female goes off to somc favorable watering place, while the old man attends strictly to household duties, and by the most constant care fans with his tai] all the sediment off the eggs. and drives off all intruders, even to ;i tcn-pound mud-turtle. II e brings forth his little family of several thousand individual fishes about as large each as the end of a broom splint and about a qunrter of an inch i : as long as a broom11 the way up to ten pound i the cocscience and ■ who for the flrst time pulls I i u1 of aqua pura, lie ttains n vveight of ■ ver four pound ■ se weighing six pounds have been caught.