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jaconveniencies, and are liable to frofts, and other 4 he 
more than the others are. 
Therefore I propofe, that the {maller waters fhould be ufed 
as nurferies, and either to breed, or be ftocked with the bred_ 
fry of other waters, to raife them to a fitnefs for ftores in your 
principal feed; that is, to fix or eight inches. And of thefe 
bred fry, you may put one hundred into four rods fquare of 
water, or near that proportion, and fail not to remove them in 
two years time; and fo you will have good recruits of ftores 
for your greater waters. 
And thus the many thoufands of bred fifth that you will 
have upon the draining your great waters, which many are apt 
to flight, may be fent feveral ways to the waters about that 
and your neighbour’s grounds, and there fed up like chickens, 
and in time turn to great profit, as I fhall fhew; therefore 
they ought not to be flighted, but carefully to be preferved; 
the rather, becaufe confidering a pond (as I propofe) will, 
though but four acres, feed up one thoufand fix hundred carps 
in two, and perhaps in one year, from ten to eighteen inches, 
fit for your table-prefents, or fale. How is it poflible you 
fhould reftock your waters the winter after, without this pro- 
vidential forecaft, whereby you have magazines of fifh in other 
ponds, fit ftores to fupply your occafion? 
Now, as for your great and principal waters, it is hard to 
aflign a certain proportion for the ftock; but perufing the 
methods I propofe, you will foon come to the knowledge what 
ftock the waters will carry; for laying a pond dry every year, 
you will fee the fith well fed, or elfe thin and lean; and ac- 
cordingly 
