FEEDING FISHES. 15 



3, Any sort of grain boiled is good to feed 

 with, especially peas and malt coarse ground. 

 The grains after brewing, while sweet and fresh, 

 are very proper ; but one bushel of malt, not 

 brewed, will go as for as two of grains. Chippings 

 of bread and orts of a table, steeped in tap-drop- 

 pings of strong beer or ale, are excellent food for 

 carp. Of these, the quantity of two quarts to 

 thirty carps is sufficient ; and so fed morning and 

 evening is better than once a day only. 



There is a sort of food for fishes that may be 

 called accidental, and is no less improving than 

 the best that can be provided ; and this is when 

 the pools happen to receive the waste of com- 

 mons where sheep have pasture : the water is 

 enriched by the soil, and will feed a much greater 

 number of carp than it otherwise would do ; and 

 further, the dung that falls from cattle standing 

 in the water, in hot weather, is also a very great 

 nourishment. to tish. 



The best food to raise pikes to an extraordinary 

 size or fatness is eels ; and without them it is not 

 to be done, but in a long time : setting these 

 aside, small perches are the best meat. Breams 

 put into a pike-pond breed exceedingly, and are 

 fit to maintain pikes, who will take care they do 

 not increase over much. The numerous fry of 

 roaches, and other small fish, which come from 

 the greater pools into the pike-quarters, will like- 

 wise be good diet for them. Pikes in all streams, 

 and carp in all hungry springing waters, being 

 fed at certain times, will come up, and take their 

 meat almost from your hand. 



The best fee<l ing-place is towards the mouth of 

 the pond, at the depth of about half a 3'ard ; for 

 by that means the deep will be kept clean and 



