AND FISHING. 101 



A pond in the garden of Emmanuel College, 

 Cambridge, contained a carp near eighty years 

 old. 



Euffon assures us that they feed them in the 

 moats in Pontchartrain, and that there are some 

 carp there that are two hundred years old, and 

 some in Lusac about the same age. The middle of 

 Europe is the best suited to carp ; in proportion 

 as they are found north, they become smaller. 



Very fine carp are caught atDagenham Breach. 



After trying many experiments to catch carp, 

 without success, sink an old boat with small deck, 

 for three months, and raise it up by one on each 

 side ; you will then find plenty of large carp and 

 eels, but not small ones, as they will not enter the 

 boat. Duhamel. 



Culture of Carp and Tench in Fish Ponds. 

 It is supposed that ninety brace of full-sized 

 carp, and forty of tench, are a good stock for an 

 acre of water. In some parts of Germany, where 

 the domestication of fish is practised, a suit of 

 ponds are so constructed that they can empty the 

 water and fish of one pond into another. The 

 empty one is then plowed, and sown with barley ; 

 when the grain is in the ear, the water and its 

 inhabitants are again admitted ; and, by feeding 



