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every tiny brooklet that does not entirely dry up during sum- 

 mertime is sufficient to' supply the necessary water for one o-r 

 more fish ponds, the exceptions to this rule being very few 

 indeed and very far between. Yet year after year, generation 

 after generation, farmers and landowners daily pass these " in- 

 significant " brooks, and do not realise the great value of the 

 possibilities that lie to 1 their hand, not only from a sporting 

 point of view, but in a. pecuniary sense also. Acre for acre, cul- 

 tivated water pays much better than cultivated land, and the 



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expense of such cultivation is not more often less. Then, 

 again, consider the large sums of money spent every year by 

 anglers in visiting distant fisheries, principally because good 

 sport with trout or other fish does not exist in their oiwn imme- 

 diate neighbourhood. Yet probably a splendid sporting water 

 cooild be formed actually on land the sportsman himself occu- 

 pies at the cost of two 1 or three such angling expeditions. True, 

 one does not always want to fish at one's own back door, but it 

 is passing strange that more good fishing does not exist at the 

 back doors of more anglers. And it must not be forgotten that, 



