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or fun in a refervoir, or by forming an open channel for it 
fome diftance from the pond; they fhould be expofed to 
the influence of the fun, and fheltered from the eaftern and 
northerly winds. 
By experience, itis found convenient to have three kinds 
of ponds for Carp, viz. the fpawning pond, the nurfery, and 
the main pond: the firft pond muft be cleared of all other 
kind of fith, efpecially thofe of the rapacious kind, fuch as 
the perch, pike, cel, and trout; the water beetle, and alfo 
of the newts or lizards. It fhould be expofed to fun and air, 
and be fupplied with foft water. A pond of one acre re- 
guires three or four male Carp, and fix or eight female ones; 
and in the fame proportion for each additional acre. The 
beft Carp for breeding are thofe of five, fix, or feven years old, 
4n good health, with full feale, and fine full eyes, and a long 
body, without any blemifh or wound: the pond fhould be 
ftocked in a fine calm day, towards the end of March, or- 
beginning of April. Carp {pawn in May, June, or July, 
according to. the warmth of the feafon; and for this purpofe, 
they fwim to a warm, fhady, well-fheltered place, where 
they gently rub their bodies againft the fandy ground, grafs, 
or. offers ; and by this preffure the {pawn iffues out at the 
{pawning feafon. All forts of fowl fliould be kept from- 
the ponds: the young fry is hatched from the fpawn by the. 
genial influence of the fun, and fhould be left in this pond 
through 
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