MANAGEMENT OF POND-FISH. 445 



It seems better for the use of the table, as well as 

 more humane, to kill Fish designed for food by an in- 

 cision with a sharp-pointed pen-knife, or punctures, 

 made with a pin longitudinally into the brain, about 

 half an inch or^an inch, according to the size of the 

 Fish, above the eyes. As this produces an instanta- 

 neous effect, it would probably save the cruel opera- 

 tion of crimping or flaying fish while alive ; as in the 

 case of Pike and Eels. 



It is obvious, that this method of regulating Fish 

 will apply with its full effect in larger spaces of water: 

 it will likewise apply in a considerable degree to 

 -smaller pieces : even where the change is but from a 

 pond for the use of cattle to a single canal in a 

 garden. 



In situations near the great inland manufactures, 

 and near the turnpike roads leading from an easy 

 distance to the metropolis, water may be made by 

 this kind of management, with little trouble or ex- 

 pence, to produce a large annual rent. 



%* Mr. Marshall was favoured with this paper ou 

 Pond-Fish by an eminent literary character in the 

 Church ".A member of the free Agricultural Society 

 at St. Petersburg;" and as the best method of breeding, 

 feeding, and preserving Fish, cannot but be esteemed 

 a valuable part of Rural Economics, he hopes it will 

 be peculiarly acceptable. 



