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it. Tliere is a grain of truth in this saying, but none the 

 less, George Holland's flies add greatly to the chances of 

 success, and his productions vn\l take a lot of heating. For 

 some time there was a strong prejudice against double- 

 winged flies, but no one who has tried them once would go 

 l)ack to single wings again. The Stour above the town of 

 Canterbury produces May-fly, and good sport is there to be 

 had with it, but this fly does not breed in the lower water. 

 I can remember when the same condition of things existed 

 upon the Darenth, when no Maj^-fly bred below Eynsford 

 viaduct. But there was a wholesale cutting of weeds in. 

 the middle of the May-fly season, and those weeds carried 

 down with them a supply of " Mays " which stocked four 

 or five miles of river in which they had never been seen 

 l>efore. I mention this as an encouragement to Mr. F. C. 

 N'ash, and other fi'iends, who are endeavouring to establish 

 a May-fly hatchery in the Lower Stour fishery. 



