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or fowl, by exposing it for the flies to blow on 

 during spring and summer. After they are full 

 grown put them in a vessel containing a quantity of 

 bran and house sand mixed; the sand should be 

 damp, or otherwise the maggots in summer will 

 soon enter into their chrysalis state, when they are 

 of no use to the angler. A correspondent, upon 

 whose veracity we can rely, informs us that having 

 to start early upon a fishing excursion, he prepared 

 over night a bag of maggots, all of which were quite 

 lively, but on opening the bag at the water-side the 

 next day, he was much annoyed to find them nearly 

 all in a dormant state. With a view to cool and 

 preserve lively what few maggots were left, he 

 dipped the bag into the river, and on looking at 

 them an hour afterwards, he found the whole of 

 them quite lively again, as on the previous night. 

 The tackle proper for maggot-fishing is described 

 on page 27. 



TO PRESERVE MAGGOTS IN WINTER. 

 In the beginning of November procure a beef's 

 liver, or two or three sheep's heads, and expose 

 them for the flies to blow on ; and when the fly- 

 blows are become full-grown maggots, put them, 

 together with the remains of the liver or heads, 



