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very good; cheese-curd, farinaceous food, may be mixed and 
all put in solution, and fed to the tiny things through a syr- 
inge; maggots—called gentles—a bait for sale at all the rod- 
fishing places in Europe, and the larvee and flies of the season, 
form good food after the fish are two months old. 
STOCKING OLD PONDS WITH TROUT. 
Old ponds, even if inhabited by trout, are apt to fill with 
weeds, which grow from all parts of the bottom except the 
channel cut by the creek flowing through it; and ifthe stream 
be too small compared with the size of the pond, so that the 
water is not renewed sufficiently often, then the eels, sunfish, 
perch, and pike are apt to accumulate, to the ultimate exter- 
mination of the trout. It becomes necessary, therefore, before 
stocking an old pond, that the water be drawn off and the 
bottom of the pond thoroughly cleaned. The expense of 
cleaning a pond is partially paid by the manure thus ob- 
tained. Some persons, after cleaning a pond, sow the bottom 
with lime and salt. The creek should also be- cleaned up to 
its source by sweeping it with small-meshed nets; but all its 
shades on the margin of the stream, and its hiding-places of 
rocks and stones in the stream, should be left, and pegs or 
