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value in our Navy. If after the war 

 Germany catches these herrings herself we 

 shall lose in a great measure this training 

 ground for thousands of our best seamen. 



In Germany the carp fisheries are ex- 

 tensively cultivated. Almost every village 

 has its carp pond, and the Germans do 

 not scruple about leading sewage into 

 these ponds. No one doubts the success 

 in getting an abundant crop of microscopic 

 flora and fauna by these methods and thus 

 quickly fattening the fish, but the prox- 

 imity of cause and effect is perhaps too 

 close for English people, and a knowledge 

 of the methods of cultivation would some- 

 what lessen the appetite. The eel is 

 another favourite ; the little elvers were 

 obtained, before the war, as they came up 

 the Bristol Channel and were distributed 

 in millions in the lakes and rivers of 

 Germany, to be caught again in autumn 

 as they made their way towards the sea. 



Norway and Sweden. Norway is a 

 vast elevated plateau, of which the highest 

 parts are snowfields forming enormous 

 glaciers often as much as 500 square miles 

 in extent. The middle heights are covered 



