WEEDS AND WEED-CUTTING 347 



Chancery Division obtain an injunction to restrain 

 his neighbour from sending down these accumulations 

 of floating cut weeds. 



Some few years since a number of owners and 

 tenants of fisheries on the two 

 Test and Itchen Asso- rivers instituted the Test and 

 ciation. Itchen Trout Fishing Associa- 



tion for the purpose of safe- 

 guarding the interests of the streams in question. 

 The most influential men interested in the matter at 

 once joined it, and a representative committee was 

 appointed. All of us had hopes of their achieving 

 good results. 



One of the first questions to be considered by their 

 committee was that of trying to propound a scheme 

 which on their recommendation lessors and lessees 

 should adopt voluntarily for the weed-cutting and 

 disposal of the cut weeds. The recommendation 

 adopted by the Association on the advice of the com- 

 mittee was to ask all who owned or leased fisheries to 

 refrain from cutting weeds between some such dates 

 as the 22nd May and 22nd June. 



With every desire to support their action and with 

 extreme reluctance to criticize the conclusions arrived 

 at on the advice of the experts whom the committee 

 had presumably consulted, I can only say that the 

 suggested scheme was utterly impracticable. To 

 leave the weeds uncut for an entire month during the 

 time of the year when their growth is most rapid 

 would be simply suicidal to chances of good sport. 



