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very good ; cheese-curd, farinaceous food, may be mixed and 

 all put in solution, and fed to the tiny things through a syr- 

 inge ; maggots called gentles a bait for sale at all the rod- 

 fishing places in Europe, and the larvae and flies of the season, 

 form good food after the fish are two months old. 



STOCKING OLD PONDS WITH TROUT. 



Old ponds, even if inhabited by trout, are apt to fill with 

 weeds, which grow from all parts of the bottom except the 

 channel cut by the creek flowing through it ; and if the stream 

 be too small compared with the size of the pond, so that the 

 water is not renewed sufficiently often, then the eels, sunfish, 

 perch, and pike are apt to accumulate, to the ultimate exter- 

 mination of the trout. It becomes necessary, therefore, before 

 stocking an old pond, that the water be drawn off and the 

 bottom of the pond thoroughly cleaned. The expense of 

 cleaning a pond is partially paid by the manure thus ob- 

 tained. Some persons, after cleaning a pond, sow the bottom 

 with lime and salt. The creek should also be cleaned up to 

 its source by sweeping it with small-meshed nets ; but all its 

 shades on the margin of the stream, and its hiding-places of 

 rocks and stones in the stream, should be left, and pegs or 



