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new grains mixed with blood; fo that if you will be at the: 
charge of feeding them in ftews, like carps, you may have 
large breams in ‘fix or feven years, which are a very flow 
grower, unlefs it be in fpringy waters. 
One way of feeding fifth is worth remembering, though 
not fit to be ufed in waters that you ever look upon. It is 
laying a dead carrion upon ftakes in the middle of the water, 
and it will breed maggots, which falling into the water, feed 
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the fifh very confiderably ; but I have not proved it. 
As for pikes, the beft food to raife them up to an extra~ 
ordinary fatnefs is eels; and without them it is not to be 
done, but in a long time; otherwife fmall perches are the beft 
meat you can give them. And. the common opinion, that 
pikes will not eat perches, becaufe of their armed backs, 
is a great miftake, as I have found. by certain. experience. 
Breams put into-a pike-pond, will breed exceedingly, and 
are good enough. to maintain pikes, who will take care they 
fhall not increafe overmuch. And the great fry of roaches 
and rouds that come from the. greater waters,, removed into 
the quarters of your pikes, will be good-diet for them. 
- Pikes in all waters, and carps in hungry fpringy waters, 
being fed at certain times, will come up and take their meat 
almoft from your hand; and it is diverting enough to fee the 
greedinefs and ftriving that will be amongft them for the good. 
bits, and the boldnefs, that by conftant and regular feeding, 
they will come to. — 
