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through the whole fummer, and even the next winter, pro- 
vided the pond is deep enough to prevent their futtecation 
during a hard winter; then the breeders and the fry are put 
into ponds fater for their wintering. 
The fecond kind of ponds are the nurferies;. the young 
fith fhould be moved, in a fine calm day, into this pond, in the 
months of March or April: a thoufand or twelve hundred 
of this fry may be well accommodated in a pond of an acre.. 
When they are firft put in, they fhould be well watched, and 
driven from the fides of the pond, left they become the prey 
of rapacious birds. In two fummers, they will grow as much 
as to weigh four, five, or even fix pounds, and be flefhy and 
well tafted. 
The main ponds are to put thofe into that meafure’ a foot, 
head and tailinclufive; every fquare of fifteen feet is fuffici- 
ent for one Carp: their growth) depends on their room, and 
the quantity of food.allowed them. 
The beft feafons for ftocking the main ponds are fpring and. 
autumn. Carp grow for many years, and become of con- 
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fiderable fize and weight. Mr. Fofter mentions feeing in 
Pruffia two or three hundred Carps of two and three feet in 
length, and one five feet long, and twenty-five pounds weight; 
it was fuppofed: to be about fixty years old: Gefner mentions 
one that was an hundred years old.. Thefe were tame, and 
would come to the fide of the pond to be fed, and fwallowed: 
W ith 
