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nothing be lost : yet there are several devices 

 for giving them food, especially pease ; as a 

 square board let down with the pease upon it. 



Where fishes are fed in large pools or ponds, 

 when their numbers are great, rnalt boiled, or 

 fresh grains, is the best food. Thus carp may be 

 fed and raised like capons, and tenches will feed 

 as well, but perches are not for a stew in feeding 

 time. 



As to the benefits that redound from keeping 

 fish, besides furnishing the table, and raising 

 money, your land will be improved, so as to be 

 really worth, and yield more this way than by any 

 other employ whatsoever. For suppose a mea- 

 dow of two pounds per acre ; four acres in pond, 

 will return every year a thousand fed carps, from 

 the least size to fourteen or fifteen inches long ; 

 besides pike, perches, tenches, and other fry : 

 the carps are saleable, and will bring sixpence, 

 ninepence, and perhaps one shilling each, amount- 

 ing in all to twenty-five pounds, which is six pounds 

 Jive shillings per acre. 



You should make choice of such a place for 

 your pond, that it may be refreshed with a little 

 rill, or wuh rain-water running or falling into it; 

 by so doing fish are both more inclined to breed, 

 and are refreshed and fed the better. 



There are many circumstances that conduce 

 much to the feeding of pikes, perches, chubs, 

 carps, roaches, daces, and breams, partictilady 

 conveniency of harbour, for those fish that lie 

 amongst weeds and boggy places are the fattest, 

 though not the sweetest ; in these kind of places 

 they are secured from the assaults of their nume- 

 rous enemies, and enjos a more safe and content- 

 ed repose ; rest and quietness being as natural 

 and helpful to their feeling as to other creatures. 



