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to leave them fallow, and utterly ignore them, but to 

 cultivate them as they would a field. A man who owned 

 a field did not leave his sheep and cattle to run wild and 

 starve, but fed them, and killed them when necessary ; so 

 with fish, a man who owned a fish-pond had a source of 

 food supply which was inexhaustible if properly managed. 

 Fresh-water fish were not like salmon ; salmon lived in 

 the sea, and in the head waters of rivers, but coarse fish 

 were always on the spot. You had a pond with fish in it, and 

 they did not want to run away ; they were not eels who 

 climbed out and ran over the grass. They would remain 

 there and breed and fatten if properly treated. Without 

 going minutely into the question, he might throw out the 

 suggestion that gentlemen having ponds should, without 

 going to any great expense for the idea of expense and 

 scientific apparatus frightened many people endeavour 

 to cultivate the fish as they found them, dividing the pond 

 into one or two portions, keeping the breeding fish in one 

 portion, the yearling fish in another, and fattening and 

 feeding them in another. They might be netted if thought 

 desirable, only taking care that a proper proportion were 

 left for breeding. In saying this he did not wish to 

 throw cold water on any scientific attempt to increase 

 fresh-water fish in any way whatever, because the further 

 they went in making scientific and practical investigations 

 in this matter, the better it would be in the end ; but 

 without going to the trouble of making special ponds and 

 apparatus, many gentlemen had the opportunity of doing 

 a great deal towards increasing the food supply, simply 

 by utilising the stock of fish they had in their own private 

 grounds. 



The resolution having been carried unanimously, 

 The CHAIRMAN in responding said it was a fair answer 



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