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allow both well employed. Either malt boiled, or frefh grains, 
is the beft food in this cafe: and what is not fupplied from 
your own houfe and brewings, you may take of neighbouring 
alehoufes, who will be willing, for a fmall matter, to throw 
into the water, at a place you fhall affign, a certain quantity 
every brewing. ‘Thus carps may be fed and raifed like capons. 
And tenches will feed in ftews, as well as carps; but perch, as 
was faid, are not for a ftew in feeding time. 
There is a fort of food for fifh, which I may call accidental, 
and is no lefs improving, than the beft you can contrive ; and 
that is, when the waters happen to receive the wath of com~ 
mons where many fheep are fed, the water is enriched by the 
earth, and fhall feed many more carps, than otherwife it 
would, This is the cafe at Antlingham in Norfolk, where 
there are ponds in a common that raife carp wonderfully, al- 
though the foil be fandy and poor, and the waters feldom let 
out; and this earthy wath is the reafon of it, When cattle 
are fed upon the paftures by your great waters, if they have 
accefs to them, in hot weather ‘they will take delight to ftand 
in the water; the dung that falls from them, is alfo a very 
great nourifhment of fifh, : 
It ‘is “belicved, that about London the Afhmongers have 
ways of making carps fat by the offal of butchers shops and 
flaughter-houfes; which I do not at all recommend to others, 
if that were to be done, becaufe a fudden filthy feeding can 
neither be wholefome nor fweet. But I haye not obferved, 
that carps. do in any fort delight in blood, nor indeed any 
other fifth, except breams; and thofe will feed much upon 
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