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The fun is a lefs material article j provided there- 
fore a pond can enjoy the morning and noon-tide fun, 
it matters not much if the wood be on one or two of 
its fides. 
The water is a material point j but in cafe the 
fprings that fupply the ponds are very cold and hard, 
it may be feftened and tempered by expofing it 
to the fun and air in a large refervoir above the 
pond, or by leading it for a long way in an open ex- 
pofure, before it enters the pond. 
The quantity of water to fupply the pond with, 
is another requilite j too much water makes too great 
a canal neceffary, for carrying its fuperfluity off j and 
this is very expenfive : too little water has another 
inconvenience, viz. that of keeping the water too 
long in the pond, and to caufe a ftagnation, without 
any fufficient frefh fupplies ; and often, in a dry fea- 
fon, the fcantinefs of frefh water diflreffes the fifb, 
and caufes difeafes and mortality among them. 
The above remarks are general, and rauft be ap- 
plied to all kinds of ponds ; but now I will enter 
into a more minute detail : it is found by experience 
moft convenient, to have three kinds of ponds for 
carp. The firft is called the fpawning-pond ; the - 
nurfery is the fecond 3 and the main-pond is the third 
and largeft. 
There are two methods for flocking the ponds 
with carp ; either to buy a few old fifli, and to put 
them into a fpawning-pond ; or to purchafe a good 
quantity of one year’s old fry, for the nurfery. I 
will treat of both methods, and will add fomething 
about the management of carp in the main-pond. 
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