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fish by throwing in to them chippings of bread, 

 curds, grains, or the entrails of chickens, or of 

 any fowl or beast that you kill to feed your- 

 selves ; for these afford fish a great relief." 

 Also " 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." Bowlker advises 

 " bullock's brains and lob-worms chopped to- 

 gether, and thrown into the pool in large 

 quantities about two hours before sunset, 

 summer and winter. . . . Wheaten bread is the 

 best food for them, though barley or oaten 

 bread is very good." 



Herr Fruwirth, the Austrian pisciculturist, 

 has adopted a most ingenious plan for the pro- 

 duction of food for his fish-ponds. He has a 

 number of small ponds or ditches with stagnant 

 water and aquatic plants, that are used as nur- 

 series to propagate the larvae of insects, small 

 crustaceans, and other low forms of animal life 

 on which fish naturally feed. From time to 

 time some of the water swarming with these 

 creatures is admitted to adjoining ponds of pure 



