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contour of the ground permits it, one may quite easily do 

 worse than form them; and the instructions I have already 

 given are sufficient for the work. 



It may be rank heresy on my part, but, all the same, I 

 should like to see a lot of existing 1 moats entirely cleared of 

 their present stock of coanse fish, proper sluices and screens 

 put up, and the water then judiciously stocked with a suitable 

 variety of Salmonidae. I can quite easily imagine the dogged 



METHOD OF LIMING A POND. 



opposition such an idea as this will meet with in certain quar- 

 ters ; but the fact remans that, in my opinion: and I am not 

 alone in such opinion where coarse fish can be supplanted by 

 SalmonidaB, they should be, whether it ba for sporting or food 

 purposes. Utilise all the coarse-fish water you can for cultiva- 

 tion of Salmonidse, and there will still be ample left for the 

 followers of coarse-fish angling. Moreover, these coarse-fisher- 

 men will quickly learn to place at its right value the enhanced 

 condition of angling as a sport, and, needless to say, their 

 wives, or their cooks, will appreciate the vast improvement 



