MAKACEMIMT OF POND-FISH. 41$ 



With regard to the abfolute weight of Pifh, which 

 any particular pond will fupport, this can only be de- 

 termined by observation and experience ; as it depends 

 on the different degrees of nutrition in different wareis. 

 It is faid, that Carp and Tench in waters which feed 

 well, will, before they are aged, double their weight 

 in one year. 



The third part of an acre in No. I would probably 

 be fuffieient tor the demand of any family. For, upon 

 the calculation above given, it would fupport near 700 

 pounds of Filh, which might be divided thus. 



50 Bxace of Carp, of three pounds each and upwards. 



50 Brace of Teuch, of two pounds each and upwards. 



50 Brace of Perch, o\ one pound each and upward?. 



Thai is, three Brace of Fifh, weighing at leafl twelve 

 pounds for the ufe of every week. 



Allowing one acre for No. 5, one third of an acre 

 for No. i, and one acre and two thirds for the inter- 

 vening numbers, the whole water would be three 

 acres. Upon this calculation the ifock of No. 1 at 8d. 

 per pound, would be worth 23\, 6s. 8d. per annum, 

 and the expence annually of changing the Fifh from 

 No. 5 to 4, &c. will not exceed ll. 6s. Sd. So that 

 the value of each acre would be at loweft 7l. 6s. 8d. 

 annually. 



No. l being fnppofed to be near the houfe, and at rio 

 great diflance from the garden, if the Fifh mould not 

 thrive fufhciently, which will be ken by the difpro- 

 portioned fize ot the head, and the whitenefs or pale- 

 uefs of the fcales, tbey may eafily be fupplied with 

 more food by loole peas from the garden, the fweeping 

 of the granary, worms faved by the Gardener in digging, 

 and the offal of the poultry killed for the kkchen ; or 

 by leiting down the water about two feet, in the fprirtfr 

 or fummer, where there is a fufficient fupply, *nd fowin| 

 the fides with oats, barley, rye, or wheat, very lightly 

 faked in, and then flopping the fluke again. 



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