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in a few words some bit of practical information, such as 

 " Sparc the ladybird ; it is a friend to the farmer." In 

 some such way might be distributed among the fishermen's 

 rooms, and on board their boats, cards with, among other 

 things, the warning, " Destroy the star-fish ; it is an enemy 

 of the fisherman." Instead of casting their vermin over- 

 board the fishermen should bring them ashore, where they 

 would make very good manure for their gardens. A fisher- 

 man, going to cultivate his potato patch on his return from 

 fishing, would not leave a fine row of healthy thistles to 

 grow and scatter their seed over his and his neighbour's 

 gardens to the detriment of his crop ; neither would he 

 pick up a slug from one part of the garden to cast it on to 

 another. As he would kill the slug, and uproot the weeds 

 instead of merely cutting off one head to let another grow, 

 so he should destroy the vermin he may find on his fishing- 

 ground. 



If all the fishermen agreed to bring ashore all the rubbish 

 they collect at sea and the entrails of the fish they gut on 

 board, they would enable local establishments to be started 

 to utilise all this offal as manure, and thus convert what 

 is at present not merely a waste, but a harmful, material 

 into a source of wealth. In some cases, for example, dog- 

 fish are occasionally met with in such enormous shoals, 

 mixed up with other fish, as to make the fishing in the 

 fishermen's estimation worthless. If they knew that in 

 killing the dog-fish they were benefiting the fishery, even 

 if they did not receive any very high price for them for the 

 sake of their oil or for the preparation of manure, they would 

 surely rather bring them home than leave them to go free 

 like wolves among their flocks. 



In directing attention to such matters as these — which 

 must commend themselves with especial force to those who 



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