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village one is not certain to get really good cement, 

 and hence I would advise it being mixed in these 

 proportions. 



Sack after sack was filled with the concrete, the 

 mouth of each securely tied up, the sacks were laid 

 diagonally across the stream one at a time, and the 

 structure raised until at a level where the stream at its 

 usual summer height was about six inches above the 

 topmost tier of bags of concrete. By the same even- 

 ing the concrete had set, and the next morning I had 

 the gratification of walking across the stream on the 

 bags, and found everything firmly set. If I were to 

 try to give some idea of the number of trout, large 

 and small, landed on that length during the last six 

 years I should probably be accused of the angler's 

 proverbial deviation from the strict truth. 



It will be noted that on the plan of a shallow, 



given in Plate X, there are a 



Piles on shallows number of piles placed in 



different positions. This pil- 

 ing of a shallow is a most important part of the work 

 of maintaining and improving a fishery. The piles 

 serve a number of purposes, each of which is of the 

 greatest benefit to the sport. The first and perhaps 

 most obvious service rendered by the presence of 

 piles is that it makes the work of anything like sys- 

 tematic netting very difficult and especially at night, 

 and it is invariably after dark that the poachers pay 

 their visits to the river. Of course they are at the 

 same time impediments which interfere with the net- 



