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which can be conveniently placed in one corner. 

 In it should be kept a small number of fish 

 ready for the table or for sale ; being in the 

 fattening tank, they are caught without trouble, 

 and no disturbance is caused to the other fish 

 in the pond itself. As Mr. Buckland said truly, 

 "It must be remembered that the more you 

 feed your fish in ponds the quicker they will 

 grow, and the larger they will become," and no 

 pond of fish will really be turned to the most 

 advantage unless artificial feeding is resorted to. 

 One curious receipt used by the monks 

 of old for fattening carp in ponds runs as 

 follows : 



" Barley meal, half a gallon ; chalk, in powder, l lbs. 

 (very clean) ; clay, a sufficient quantity to make a stiff 

 paste. Place this in the stew or pond, in a net (of not 

 too small meshes), suspended about a foot from the 

 bottom. When all is sucked away but the clay, put 

 fresh in the net or nets." 



How the fish are to abstract the barley and 

 chalk out of the paste and leave the clay, is not 

 explained. Dr. Lebault, according to Father 

 Izaak, recommended " that you often feed your 



