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prevented from coming to the fides and being deftroyed. In this pond they may remain two years and become four, five, or fix inches in length, and gool forufe; the third or main pond is deftined for the reception of the grown fifh, as thofe that meafure a foot or more including the heads and tails.‘

The proportions in which thefe different ponds are advifed to be flocked are thefe:—for each acre of the firtt fort,“ three or four male carps, and fix or eight female ones.” The moft fuitable fort for this ufe being‘ thofe of five, fix, or feyen years old, in good health, with full fcale, and fine full eyes, and a long body without any blemifh or wound.” The ponds fhould be previoufly cleared of all forts of voracious fifhes and other animals, as“ perch, pike, eel, and trout; the water- beetle, and alfo the newts or lizards*.” Such ponds as are warm and have an open expofure, with foft water, are the moft proper for thisufe, all kinds of water-fowl being kept fromtbhem. Forthe nurfing ponds a thoufand or twelve hundred may not be more than fufficient for an acre; and for the main ponds, one to every{quare of fifteen feet isthe proportion advifed, as their growth depends greatly on the room and quantity of food that is allowed}. The beft feafons for performing the bufiuefs, in this cafe, are thofe of the fpring andautumn. Some advife in thefe cafes the ftocking with carp or teach in the proportion of three to a fquare perch i.

In firft ftocking large ponds or waters, as where they are of the extent of three or four acres, carp in the proportion of three hundred to the acre are recommended; but where they do not extend to fuch fizes, not fo great a proportion. And in re- ftocking, after two or three years, four hundred to the acre§.

Where the ponds are fuitable for tench, the firft ftocking with them in fuch cafes may be rather more, andin the re-{tockings confiderably more, as feven or eight hundred to the acre.

As perch are great breeders, in firft fiocking with them fix hundred to the acre may be fufficient. In Berkthire, where there are many ponds for the preferving of fith, they ufually flock with carp or tench in the proportion of-one hundred to the acre, the fifh reinaining four years in them||. But in the management of Sir Harry Featherftone, in Sufiex, in a pond of twenty acres reduced to fixteen by the depofi- tion of mud, the ftock is generally in the proportion of twelve hundred carp and an equal number of tench; or at the rate of. feventy-five brace to the acre. And in this proportion they are faid to fucceed well€]. Where pike does not form any

* North in Annals of Agriculture, Vol. XX XVIII.+ Ibid. } Annals of Agriculture, Vol. XXXIX.§ Ibid.|} Ibid. Vol. XLI, q Ibid. Vol. XXXIIT,

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