go9 Live Stock.—Fifh-Ponds—Method of forming.

money.‘Thefe banks or heads fhould be formed on foundations of fufficient depths, as from two to three or more fect, and in breadth proportioned to the extent and prefiure of the water. The wall in the middle part, which fhould not be lefs than three or four feet in width, being wholly made by puddling pure clay, which in many inflances may be chiefly procured by floping out the ground intended for the ponds, or digging out fmall ponds for fews,&c. If clay can be eafily got from other places, it is, however, better to let the ground for the ponds remain, as the fith feed better for it. As the work of puddling advances, earth mutt be well rammed to the different fides of the wall, and, when finithed,.the whole immediately well covered over withit, in order to guard againtt cracking. In cafes where the ground on the fides rifes in avery gentle manner, banks or heads of from fix to eight or nine feet in height will often be capable of covering fome acres of land with water. But in the contrary circumftances they will be required to be confiderably higher, as well as of greater breadth and ftrength. This may be eafily regulated by proper levelling:— fuppofing ten feet to be a fufficient height in the centre for raifing the water, the foot of the bank fhould not be lefs than thirty-five, being gradually narrowed or floped on the fides fo as to bring it to cight or ten on the top. It is better, how- ever, to have the fide next to the water more floped than the other. Some fuch proportion as this fhould be preferved in all cafes, always giving them too much rather than too little breadth in their foundations. Proper grates, fluices, and diverting channels for taking off the water in the time of floods will likewife be neceflary; the laft being formed and conduied along the fides of the ponds, where there are more than one, and the fluices fixed in the loweft parts.”. Thefe fhould be made perfectly firong of good feafoned oak, and be well fixed in the banks, and the clay tightly rammed in about them*.

The expenfe of confiructing heads and banks of this nature, including every thing, may in moft fituations be eftimated at from one to two fhillings the cubical yard.

In raifing carp it is often the practice to have three ponds: one for the purpofe of {pawning the fith in, and in which they fhould be left during the reft of the fammer and the following winter, as they moftly fpawn from the beginning of May tothe latter end of July; another for the convenience of nurfing up the young fry,into which they thould be put about the latter‘end of March or the beginning of April, choofing a calw but not funny day for the bufinefs. After which they fhould be carefully

* North in Annals of Agriculture, Vol. XXXVIII.

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