192 Neglect of Pond- Culture. 



" You are to cleanse your Pond, if you 

 intend either profit or pleasure, once 

 every three or four years (especially some 

 ponds), and let it lye dry six or twelve 

 months, both to kill the water weeds, as 

 Water-lUlieS) Candocks, Reate and Bull- 

 rushes^ that breed there ; and also that as 

 these die for want of water, so grass may 

 grow in the Ponds bottom, which Carps 

 will eat greedily in all the hot months if 

 the Pond be clean." 



It is a pity that our landowners of the 

 present day pay so little attention to their 

 ponds and lakes often for generations 

 they are left untouched, until they hold 

 more mud than water, and are unwhole- 

 some for both land and water animals. 

 If they were drained every few years, the 

 mud put on the neighbouring fields, the 

 bottom ploughed and sown with oats, and 

 then used again for breeding fish, they 

 would prove much more profitable than 

 at present. Our farmers forget that the 

 Jews in our large towns are always ready 

 to buy carp and other fresh-water fish with 

 scales : all fish, including eels, have scales ; 

 but the Jews will eat only those which 

 have their scales in evidence. 



It is also a pity that our farmers do not 

 know that a permanent stream of water 

 running through their land may often be 



