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INDEX. 



Cut weeds, 60 



annoyance from, 6 1 



disposal of, 64 



Cutting weeds, autumn, 57 



by lessee, 47 



by lessor, 46 



side and bar system, 50 



spring, 48 



treatment of hatch holes, 



54 



• mill ponds, 53 



• shallows, 49 



Dace, netting, 111 



Deep water, trimming weeds 



in, 55 

 Description of a stew, 147 

 Difficult places to net, 112 

 Disease in the stew, origin, 



169 

 Disposal of cut weeds, 64 



of fish taken netting, 99 



Drag nets, 87 



Dredging to ascertain nature 



of food supply, 7 

 Drifting weeds while fishing, 67 

 Dr owners, 39 

 Ducks and swans, 79 

 Duties of head keeper when 



netting, 100 



Educating yearlings to surface 

 food in the stew, 158 



Effects of pollution in spawn- 

 ing beds, 131 



Estimating numbers of spawn- 

 ing fish, 132 



Eyed ova, 139 



stocking with, 140 



Examination of weeds, 8 

 Extent of water, 3 



Farmers' water rights, 22 

 Favourable and unfavourable 



days for wiring pike, 121 

 Fear of enemies, 191 

 Feeding in stew — first attempt, 



157 

 Fish as poachers, 80 

 Fish, poached, receivers of, 73 

 Fish spawning, estimating 



numbers, 132 

 Fish taken netting, disposal 



of, 99 

 Floaters, 39 

 Flood, force of stream in, 



199 

 Floods, trout in carriers after, 



201 

 — effects of, on trout, 198 

 Food for yearlings in stew, 



155 

 quantity given in stew, 



160 



supply, 7 



as affected by weeds, 44 



■ nature of, ascertained by 



dredging, 7 

 Francis Francis on grayling 



v. trout, 1 77 



opinion, pike, 80 



Fresh strain, advantages of 



introducing, 130 

 Fry, stocking with, 141 

 Fungus in stew, treatment, 166 



Gilby v. Wiggins, Teape, and 

 Co. Ltd., 63 



