AND HOW TO ORDER THEM 



country : however, he advises to destroy them and King-fishers 

 out of your ponds ; and he advises, not to suffer much shooting 

 at wild-fowl, for that he says affrightens, and harms and 

 destroys the fish. 



Note, that Carps and Tench thrive and breed best when no 

 other fish is put with them into the same pond ; for all other 

 fish devour their spawn; or at least the greatest part of it. 

 And note, that clods of grass thrown into any pond, feed any 

 Carps in Summer; and that garden-earth and parsley thrown 

 into a pond, recovers and refreshes the sick fish. And note, 

 that when you store your pond, you are to put into it two or 

 three melters for one spawner, if you put them into a Breeding- 

 pond ; but if into a Nurse-pond, or Feeding-pond, in which they 

 will not breed, then no care is to be taken, whether there be 

 most male or female Carps. 



It is observed, that the best ponds to breed Carps, are those 

 that be stony or sandy, and are warm and free from wind, and 

 that are not deep, but have willow trees, and grass on their 

 sides, over which the water does sometimes flow: and note, 

 that Carps do more usually breed in marie-pits, or pits that 

 have clean clay-bottoms, or in new ponds, or ponds that lie dry 

 a Winter season, than in old ponds that be full of mud and 

 weeds. 



Well, Scholar, I have told you the substance of all that 

 either observation or discourse, or a diligent survey of Dubravius 

 and Lebault hath told me ; not that they in their long discourses 

 have not said more, but the most of the rest are so common 

 observations, as if a man should tell a good arithmetician, that 

 twice two is four. I will therefore put an end to this discourse, 

 and we will here sit down and rest us. 



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