C 316 ] 
A pond intended for fpawning, muft be well 
cleaned of all other kinds of filh, efpecially fuch as 
are of a rapacious nature, viz. pike, pearch, eel, and 
trout and alfo of all the newts or larva of lizards, 
and the dytifei or water-beetles, which frequently 
deftroy quantities of the fry, to the great lofs of the 
owner. 
A rich foil, gentle Hoping banks, mild fprings, or 
a conftant fupply of good foft water, with a fine ex- 
pofure in regard to fun and air, are the chief requifites 
for a good fpawning-pond. 
A pond of the fize of about one acre, requires 
three or four male carp, and fix or eight female onesj, 
and thus further, in proportion to each acre, the fame 
number of males and females. 
The befi; carp for breeders are five, fix, or feverr 
years old, in good health, in full fcale, without any^ 
blemifh or wound (efpecially fuch as are caufed by 
the Icrncea cyprini Linn, a kind of cartilaginous- 
worm) with fine full eyes and a long body. Such 
as are fickly, move not brilkly, have Ipots as if they 
had the fmall-pox, have either loft their fcales, or 
have them fticking but loofely to the body, whofe 
c}'es lie deep in their heads, are fhort, deep, and lean, 
will never produce good breed. 
Being provided with a fet of fuch carp as are here 
deferibed, and fufficient to ftock a pond with, it is 
beft to put them, on a fine calm day, the latter end 
of March or in April, into the fpawning-pond. Care 
muft betaken, that 'the fifh be not too much hurt by 
being tranfported in a hogfhead, nor put into the 
pond on a ftormy day 5 for they are eafily thrown 
upon 
